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Tremissis - Recaredo I Eliberri
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 586-601 |
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| Weight | 1.42 g |
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| Obverse description | Frontal facing bust of the king in the central field, rendered in the stylized Visigothic manner with a broad, schematic face, prominent pellet eyes, and a beaded diadem or crown indicated by a row of pellets atop the head. The bust is draped and cuirassed, with a decorative collar or neckpiece visible below the chin. Surrounding the central effigy is the circular Latin legend RECCAREDVS REX, executed in the characteristic angular, degenerate letterforms typical of late Visigothic coinage, arranged around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Recaredo I's conversion from Arianism to Nicene Christianity at the Third Council of Toledo in 589 was among the most consequential religious-political shifts in post-Roman Iberia, and the Eliberri mint — modern Granada — was among the workshops producing his gold coinage during this transitional reign. Whether coins struck before and after 589 show any meaningful typological shift remains a subject of ongoing debate among specialists in Visigothic numismatics.
CNV#67 / Pliego#101 places this piece within a firmly attributed Eliberri sequence, a mint active through much of the Visigothic period despite the city's relative political marginality compared to Toledo.