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Tremissis - Suintila Acci
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 621-631 |
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| Value | 1 Tremissis |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Schematic front-facing bust, closely mirroring the obverse type, rendered in the same stylized Visigothic idiom with beaded drapery elements and a cross below the chin. The surrounding field is filled with large six-pointed stars and pellet ornaments, consistent with the distinctive decorative vocabulary of the Acci mint. The peripheral legend + PIVS HAC identifies the mint as Acci and alludes to the pious epithet of the king. The flat, hammered flan and irregular planchet are characteristic of Visigothic tremisses of this period. |
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Suintila ruled the Visigothic Kingdom from 621 until his deposition by Sisenand in 631 — the first Visigothic king, according to Isidore of Seville, to hold sole dominion over the entire Iberian Peninsula after expelling the last Byzantine footholds from the southeast. Tremisses struck in his name at Acci, the Roman colony now identified as Guadix in Granada province, reflect the kingdom's deliberate continuation of late Roman monetary forms as instruments of fiscal administration.
Acci was among the more active southern mints of the reign, documented across multiple die pairings in Pliego's corpus.