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1 Tremissis In the name of Anastasius I, Two stars, Rome
| Issuer | Ostrogothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 491-518 |
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| Currency | Tremissis (490-553) |
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| Obverse lettering | D N ANASTA - SIVS PF AVC (Translation: Dominus Noster Anastasius Perpetuus Augustus Our Lord, Anastasius, perpetual August) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Theoderic's Ostrogothic administration issued gold coinage in the name of the reigning Eastern emperor as a deliberate act of political legitimacy — the fiction that Ostrogothic Italy remained part of the Roman imperial order. Anastasius I, who ruled Constantinople from 491 to 518, never directly controlled the Roman mint, yet his name and authority appeared on its gold output throughout Theoderic's reign.
The Rome mint's tremisses from this period are notoriously variable in execution, and the two-star reverse type cited across Arslan, Metlich, and Demo represents one of the more precisely catalogued varieties within what is otherwise a murky series.