v11_0615 - SPAIN - VISIGOTHS - SISEBUT Triens

MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 533.57 €
Estimate : 731.76 €
unsold lot

Type : Triens

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Tolède

Metal : gold

Diameter : 17 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,32 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Ce triens est frappé sur un flan un peu irrégulier et présente au revers deux petites traces, à 9 et 12 heures, résultant probablement d’une ancienne monture

Catalogue references :

CC/2235 p. 67 - MEC.1/-

Predigree :

Monnaie provenant de la vente Alain Weil des 28 et 29 décembre 1999, n° 412

Obverse

Obverse legend : + SISEBVTVS REX.

Obverse description : Buste drapé de face.

Obverse translation : (Sisebut, roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + TOLETODIVS.

Reverse description : Buste drapé de face.

Reverse translation : (Tolède).

Historical background

SPAIN - VISIGOTHS - SISEBUT

(612-02/621)

Sisebut was elected king of the Visigoths in 612, after the death of Gundmar. His reign was marked by a Catholic intolerance characterized in particular by a persecution of the Jews. Conqueror, he submitted the Astures and the Vascons. He built up a fairly large fleet which went so far as to besiege Ceuta, then under Byzantine domination. He died assassinated in February 621, probably following a plot fomented by General Suintila.