Nummus

Late Antiquity

 

 

 

Metal: Bronze.

Issuing entity: Vandal kingdom. Gelimer.

Mint: Carthage (Tunisia).

Date: AD 530-534

Obverse:

Diademed bust, right. Legend illegible.

Reverse:

Gelimer monogram.

Weight: 0.78 gr. - Diameter: 10 mm. - Axes: 3 h.

Described in: Grierson, P. and Blackburn, M., 1991: Medieval European Coinage I: The Early Middle Ages (5th - 10th Centuries), University of Cambridge, 28-30.

Published in: Ramón Sánchez, J.J.: 2011, Numismatic finds from La Vila Joiosa deposited in the MARQ, in AAVV: 2011, La Vila Joiosa, Arqueologia i Museu. Municipal Museums at the MARQ, Alicante, 296 s.

Monetary Inventory Number: 4554.

Donation. Municipality of La Vila Joiosa.