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Tremissis - Leovigildo
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 575-586 |
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| Weight | 1.47 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (575-586) |
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Leovigild fundamentally restructured Visigothic coinage, breaking from the practice of striking in the name of the reigning Eastern emperor and issuing coins under his own name and image instead — a sharp political assertion of independent royal authority. This tremissis falls within that transformative early phase of his reign, before his military consolidation of the peninsula was complete. He had not yet conquered the Suevic kingdom of Galicia, which fell in 585.
The CNV and Pliego references place this piece among the earliest documented royal Visigothic emissions, a series notorious for die variation across numerous minting locations whose exact identifications remain disputed.