Live auction - bmv_440723 - SPAIN - VISIGOTHS - SUINTILA Triens

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Estimate :	1 000 €
Price :	550 €
Maximum bid :	875 €
End of the sale :	12 September 2017 15:31:12
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Triens

Date: c. 621-631

Mint name / Town : Emerita, Lusitania

Metal : gold

Diameter : 18,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,46 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés à la frappe vigoureuse, de haut relief, finement détaillé. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine

Catalogue references :

CC/2255 p. 73 - MEC.1/238 var.

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire a été acquis en juin 1994 et provient de Conseils Placements

Obverse

Obverse legend : + SVINTHILA REX.

Obverse description : Buste drapé de face.

Obverse translation : (Suinthila, roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : + EMERI-T-A PIVS.

Reverse description : Buste drapé de face.

Reverse translation : (Emerita).

Commentary

Dans le Corpus Nummorum Visigothorum, quatre types sont distingués sous l'atelier de Tolède pour Svinthila ; la légende du revers ne varie pas, mais le nom du roi varie avec l’inversion des lettres IH et I ou par l'oubli du X de REX qui est aussi remplacé par une croisette. Cet exemplaire correspond au premier type, le plus classique et celui qui est illustré. L’exemplaire du MEC a la particularité d'avoir l'O plein.

Historical background

SPAIN - VISIGOTHS - SUINTILA

(00/03/621-26/03/631)

Suintila was proclaimed king of the Visigoths in March 621. He succeeded Récarède II. During his reign, he submitted the Vascons and built Oligitis (today Olite in Navarre); in 624, he expelled the last Byzantines from the Iberian Peninsula, some bastions of which remained in the Algarve. On March 26, 631, he was dethroned by Sisenand, governor of Gaul of the Goths. He died in 640, in Toledo.