The Barbaric Tremissis in Spain and Southern France: Anastasius to Leovigild

380 Pages·1964·58.198 MB·English

by  Wallace J. Tomasini

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NUMISMATIC NOTES AND MONOGRAPHS
Number 152

The Barbaric Tremissis in Spain
and Southern France
Anastasius to Leovigild
By WALLACE J. TOMASINI
THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY
NEW YORK
I964
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THE AMERICAN NUMISMATIC SOCIETY
PRINTED IN GERMANY
AT J. J. AUGUSTIN • GLÜCKSTADT
TO
WALTER W. S. COOK,
who introduced me to the Visigoths and to Numismatics,
AND
RICHARD OFFNER,
who taught me how to see.

CONTENTS
FOREWORD ...................................................................................................... ix
BIBLIOGRAPHY, COLLECTIONS AND KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS . . . . XÜi
I. ANTECEDENTS FOR THE SIXTH CENTURY TREMISSIS . . . . I
II. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VPW TYPE AND ITS USE ON THE
ANASTASIUS TREMISSIS IN THE WEST ...................................... 12
III. BARBARIANS AND THE VPW TREMISSIS ......................................... 25
IV. THE DATING OF THE TREMISSIS
A. THE DATE OF THE FIRST VPW ANASTASIUS TREMISSIS . . 45
B. THE DATE OF THE LAST VPW ISSUE ...................................... 63
V. DETERMINANTS FOR STYLISTIC ANALYSIS ............................. 76
VI. THE ANALYSIS OF GROUPS ......................................................... 88
VII. OBSERVATIONS ON STYLE GROUPS AND PROGRESSIONS . . . . I35
STYLISTIC FACTORS OF DESIGN........................................................I35
LEGENDS..................................................................................................I43
STARS AND CROSSES.............................................................................I45
WEIGHTS..................................................................................................148
MINT ATTRIBUTIONS.............................................................................152
CONCLUSION : VISIGOTHIC ART AND NUMISMATICS ........................173
THE CORPUS ..........................................................................................................183
CHARTS
GENERAL ABBREVIATION KEY TO CHARTS .........................................2ÓI
I. TREMISSES IN THE VTH CENTURY ...............................................2Ö2
II. TREMISSES AND l\ SCRIPULUM IN THE LATE IVTH CENTURY 264
III. VPW IN OTHER DENOMINATIONS IN GOLD AND SILVER, LATE
IVTH—VTH CENTURIES ......................................................................266
IV. VPW IN BRONZE, LATE IVTH-VTH CENTURIES ...........................268
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V. LEGEND ASSOCIATION WITH VPW TYPES IN Æ3 AND Æ4
ISSUES ..................................................................................................271
VI. INCIDENCE OF VPW TYPES IN GOLD,S ILVER AND BRONZE . . 275
VII. NUMBERS OF COINS STUDIED BY STYLE GROUPS AND BY
COLLECTION...................................................................................283
VIII. STYLE GROUP PROGRESSIONS.....................................................288
IX. QUANTITATIVE GRAPH OF FRENCH AND IBERIAN COLLECTIONS
STUDIED..........................................................................................289
X. FREQUENCY TABLE OF WEIGHTS OF COINS IN MAJOR GROUPS 29O
Xa. GRAPH OF CHART X — AVERAGE WEIGHT IN LARGEST
WEIGHT GROUP.............................................................................292
Xb. GRAPH OF CHART X — AVERAGE WEIGHT OF ALL SPECI­
MENS OF KNOWN WEIGHT .....................................................293
XC-Xi. AVERAGE WEIGHTS IN STYLE GROUP PROGRESSIONS 294
XI. FREQUENCY TABLE OF WEIGHTS OF COINS IN COMBINED
MAJOR AND SUB-GROUPS ...............................................................296
Xia. GRAPH OF CHART XI — AVERAGE WEIGHT IN LARGEST
WEIGHT GROUP............................................................................298
Xlb. GRAPH OF CHART XI — AVERAGE WEIGHT OF ALL SPECI­
MENS OF KNOWN WEIGHT .....................................................299
INDEX TO LETTERED PLATES ......................................................................3OO
PLATES .................................................................................................................303