Tremissis

Tremissis from Constantinople in the second reign of Zeno.

Tremissis from Milan in the reign of Julius Nepos.

Frankish gold Tremissis with Christian cross, issued by minter Madelinus, Dorestad, Netherlands, mid-600s.

Tremissis was a currency of the Late Ancient Rome, equal to one-third of a solidus. Tremissis coins were continued to be minted by descendants of the Roman Empire, such as Anglo-Saxon Britain^[1] or the Eastern Roman Empire.^[2]

References

↑ Herbert Appold (1899). Handbook of the Coins of Great Britain and Ireland in the British Museum.
↑ Worp, K.A. (1992). "Tables of Tax Receipts on Greek Ostraka from Late Byzantine and Early Arab Thebes". Analecta Papyrologica (Messina). 4: 49–55. hdl:1887/9298.

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Currencies of Ancient Rome

Proto-currency	Bronze Aes rude Aes signatum

Republican era	Gold Aureus Silver Denarius Sestertius Victoriatus Quadrigatus Bronze and copper Dupondius (2 asses) As (1) Dodrans (3/4) Bes (2/3) Semis (1/2) Triens (1/3) Quadrans (1/4) Quincunx (5/12) Sextans (1/6) Uncia (1/12) Semuncia (1/24)

Early Empire	Gold Aureus Dacicus Silver Antoninianus (32 asses) Denarius (10; 16) Quinarius (5; 8) Copper Double sestertius (8) Sestertius (2½; 4) Dupondius (2) As (1) Semis (1/2) Quadrans (1/4)

Diocletian era	Gold Solidus Silver Argenteus Nummus Copper Radiate Laureate Denarius

Late Empire	Gold Solidus Tremissis Silver Miliarense Siliqua Copper and bronze Follis Nummus Constantinian bronzes Centenionalis

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Currencies of the Byzantine Empire

First period (498 – ca. 700)	Gold Solidus Semissis Tremissis Silver Hexagram (from 615) Copper Follis Half-follis Decanummium Pentanummium Nummus

Second period (ca. 700 – 1092)	Gold Solidus or Nomisma (later Histamenon) Tetarteron (from 960s) Silver Miliaresion (from 720) Copper Follis

Third period (1092 – ca. 1300)	Gold Hyperpyron Electrum Nomisma trachy aspron (Trikephalon/Manouelaton) Billon Aspron trachy (Stamenon) Copper Tetarteron Half-tetarteron

Fourth period (ca. 1300 – 1350s)	Gold Hyperpyron Silver Basilikon Billon Tournesion (Politikon) Copper Trachy Assarion

Fifth period (1367 – 1453)	Silver Stavraton Half-stavraton Doukatopoulon (Aspron) Copper Tournesion Follaro

Related topics	Byzantine economy Byzantine mints Scyphate

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