Tremissis
The tremissis or tremis (
siliquae (equivalent to 1.52 grams).[1]
Roman tremisses continued to be commonly minted into the reign of
trachy, introduced in the 11th century, was equivalent in value to the old tremissis. Although it was not made of gold, it was one third of the standard golden hyperpyron. It was not, however, called tremissis.[1]
Outside of the Roman empire, tremisses were minted by the
Suevi and Visigoths between the 5th and 8th centuries.[2] The word tremissis was borrowed into Old English as thrymsa.[3]
In Frankish sources, the tremissis is sometimes called a
Merovingian kings a triens (but avoiding the plural form trientes), while British scholarship prefers tremissis.[4]
It was still used as an accounting currency until at least the 12th century in Sardinia. It appears as tremisse in the condaghe.[5]
References
- ^ a b Philip Grierson, "Tremissis", in Alexander Kazhdan, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 1991 [online 2005]), vol. 3, p. 2113.
- ^ "Tremissis", in Robert E. Bjork, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 2010).
- ^ "Thrymsas", in Robert E. Bjork, ed., The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 2010).
- ^ Philip Grierson and Mark Blackburn, Medieval European Coinage: Volume 1, The Early Middle Ages (5th–10th Centuries) (Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 102.
- ^ Il condaghe di Santa Maria di Bonarcado / a cura di Maurizio Virdis. - Nuoro : Ilisso, 2003
Further reading
- Metcalf, William E. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage. Oxford University Press, 2012.
External links
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