Tremissis - Wittiza Mentesa

Wittiza's reign is one of the most contested in Visigothic historiography — later Carolingian and Asturian sources systematically blackened his reputation to legitimize Pelayo's rebellion, making it nearly impossible to separate the man from the propaganda. Mentesa, the mint city, corresponds to modern Mengíbar in Jaén, a secondary inland mint that produced relatively few tremisses across the late Visigothic period.

Within two years of this coin's latest possible striking date, the Umayyad invasion of 711 had effectively ended Visigothic coinage altogether.