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Tremissis - Witerico Gerunda
| Issuer | Visigothic Kingdom |
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| Year | 603-610 |
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| Currency | Tremissis |
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| Obverse description | Stylized facing bust of King Witerico rendered in the degenerate late antique manner characteristic of Visigothic tremisses, set within a beaded border. The effigy is depicted frontally with a schematic diademed head surmounted by a cross, the facial features reduced to abstract forms typical of the period. The surrounding circular legend reads + VVITTERICVS RE, identifying the issuing monarch. The flat, highly conventionalized treatment of the portrait reflects the progressive artistic abstraction of Hispano-Visigothic coinage in the early seventh century. |
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| Reverse lettering | * GERONDA IVST |
| Edge | Plain (irregular) |
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