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Tremissis - Eon
| Issuer | Kingdom of Aksum |
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| Year | 390-450 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis (⅓) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of King Eon facing right, depicted in profile within a beaded inner circle, the effigy adorned with a tiara or crown indicated by pellets above the head. The bust is enclosed within a double linear border, with the surrounding field bearing the royal legend in pseudo-Greek or Ge'ez-influenced lettering arranged between cross symbols. The outer border is composed of alternating letter-like glyphs and cross motifs in the characteristic Aksumite decorative style. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Eon ruled Aksum during a period when the kingdom was consolidating its control over trade routes connecting the Roman Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, and the gold tremissis denomination itself was almost certainly adopted in direct imitation of late Roman coinage to facilitate that commerce. Aksumite gold circulated as far as India and Sri Lanka, where hoards have confirmed its transactional reach well beyond the Horn of Africa.
The BMC Aksum cataloguing by Stuart Munro-Hay remains the principal reference, though SACAM has since refined the die groupings for Eon's issues considerably.