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Tremissis - Witerico Toleto
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 603-610 |
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| Weight | 1.42 g |
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| Reverse description | Facing bust of a figure, likely a secondary royal or ecclesiastical portrait, rendered in the same schematic Visigothic style as the obverse, centrally placed within a beaded or plain inner circle and surrounded by a nimbus or circular border suggesting regal or sacred authority. The field is otherwise plain. The circumferential legend + TOLETO PIVS in Latin capitals surrounds the central effigy, identifying the mint city of Toledo and the royal epithet PIVS, beginning with a cross pattée. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Witeric seized the Visigothic throne in 603 by assassinating Liuva II, and his seven-year reign was marked by failed military campaigns against the Byzantines in southern Hispania and a series of unstable political alliances. He was himself murdered at a banquet in 610, his body dragged through the streets of Toledo. Coins struck in his name at Toledo are documented but relatively scarce — his reign produced no dynastic consolidation, and minting appears to have been episodic rather than sustained.
Pliego 186 places this type within the Toledo mint sequence with confidence, though die linkage studies suggest limited production runs.