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Tremissis - Amalarico
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 507-531 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis |
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| Reverse description | A stylized figure of Victory advancing to the right, rendered in a barbarous manner, holding a wreath or crown in the raised right hand and a palm branch in the left. The figure is depicted in flowing robes with crude, angular execution typical of Visigothic imitative coinage. The exergue bears the officina mark CONOB, denoting the Constantinople mint standard upon which this tremissis type was modelled, while a degraded legend surrounds the central device. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Amalaric's reign opened in catastrophe. The Visigothic defeat at Vouillé in 507 — where Clovis killed Alaric II and shattered the kingdom's Gallic holdings — left the young heir dependent on Ostrogothic regency under Theoderic the Great, his maternal grandfather. Coinage struck in Amalaric's name during this period effectively functioned under Ostrogothic supervision, making the attribution of specific issues to his independent authority a matter of ongoing scholarly debate.
Full autonomous rule came only after Theoderic's death in 526. Amalaric was assassinated by his own troops five years later.