Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Tremissis from Constantinople in the second reign of Zeno. Frankish gold Tremissis with Christian cross, issued by minter Madelinus [], Dorestad, Netherlands, mid-600s.. The tremissis or tremis (Greek: τριμίσιον, trimision) was a small pure gold coin of Late Antiquity.
Frankish gold Tremissis with Christian cross, issued by minter Madelinus, Dorestad, Netherlands, mid-7th century Merovingian fibulae. Cabinet des Médailles A gold chalice from the Treasure of Gourdon Cover of Merovingian sarcophagus with Christian IX monogram, Musée de Saint-Germain-en-Laye Baptistry of St. Jean, Poitiers
All denominations are very similar to their Roman archetypes, faithfully copying legends and designs, albeit crudely. The tremissis was worth a third of a solidus, and the siliqua an eighth of a tremissis. The coins do not bear any identifying marks to distinguish them from Roman issues; they are identified by style and archaeological context.
Avitus tremissis, one-third of a solidus, c. AD 456. The solidus was not marked with any face value throughout its seven-century manufacture and circulation. Fractions of the solidus known as semissis (half-solidi) and tremissis (one-third solidi) were also produced. The fractional gold coins were especially popular in the West where the ...
The hoard also includes ten coins from the Byzantine Empire; nine solidi and one tremissis. One coin in the horde was previously known only from an engraving in a book by a French writer which was published in 1666, and confirmed the coin's authenticity. Very few of the tremisses fall below 80% gold purity, with one exception being a plated ...
Tremissis minted by a Visigothic king in the name of Majorian. These coins were minted in Arelate between 457 and 507 and showed the corrupted name iviivs haiorianvs. Even if their style was close to the Roman originals, Visigothic coins contained less precious metal; it was probably for this reason that Majorian issued a law obliging the tax ...
Reccared I (or Recared; Latin: Flavius Reccaredus; Spanish: Flavio Recaredo; c. 559 – December 601; reigned 586–601) was the king of the Visigoths, ruling in Hispania, Gallaecia and Septimania.
A tremissis of Cunipert (r. 688-700), issued by the mint of Pavia. Obverse: DN CVNI-INCPE RX, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right; in field to right, manus Dei Reverse: SCS MI-HAHIL :., St. Michael standing left, holding long cross. The coinage of the Lombards refers to the autonomous productions of coins by the Lombards.