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Object Type
Museum number: B.12661
Denomination: tremissis
Description: Gold coin. (whole); Diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Zeno, right. (obverse); Cross within wreath. (reverse)
State: Associated with: Odovacar's Kingdom of Italy (?) Europe: Odovacar's Kingdom of Italy; Associated with: Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy (?) Europe: Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy
Authority: Issuer: Odovacar, King of Italy (?); Issuer: Theodoric I, King of the Ostrogoths (?)
Cultures/periods
Production date: 477-491
Production place: Minted in: Ravenna (city)
Materials
Dimensions: Die-axis: 6 o'clock; Diameter: 14 millimetres; Weight: 1.430 grammes
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: In this type the legend on the obverse should end only in AV instead of AVC, but in this case some evidence of a possible final C is perhaps detectable. The legend on the obverse records the use of the letter epsilon that becomes PЄRP F. On the reverse, the lower part of the wreath is tied by a rope that is shaped as an elongated letter X.
Bibliographic references: BZ3 / Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum (6, p.44); RIC10 / The Roman imperial coinage, vol. 10: The divided empire and the fall of the western parts, AD 395-491. (3641); Baldi 2014 / Ostrogothic Coins in the British Museum (32.2)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: emperor/empress; cross; symbol
Associated names
Acquisition notes: Aquisition details unrecorded.
Department: Coins and Medals
Registration number: B.12661
C&M catalogue number: BZ3 (Vandals) (44) (6)

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