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tremissis|trɪˈmɪsɪs|
Also erron. tremis(s. Pl. tremisses.
[late L., gen. sing. of trēmis, f. trēs three, after sēmis half an as: cf. semis1.]
A late Roman or early Byzantine gold coin, the third part of a solidus; a Merovingian or other imitation of this.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Tremissis, or Golden Triens, a Roman Gold Coin worth five Shillings Sterling. 1756Nugent Montesquieu's Spir. Laws (1758) II. xxii. ii. 72 The sou of two tremises [F. deux tremisses] answered to an ox of twelve months. 1952Antiquity XXVI. 77 All the coins from Sutton Hoo are tremisses (thirds of solidi). 1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon England ii. 74 The solidus (or sou) was..essentially..the imperial coin reformed by Constantine; more frequent in Gaul was the tremissis (or triens), the third part of a sou. 1976Anglo-Saxon England V. 176 Small Merovingian gold tremisses..had been penetrating the south-east of England. Ibid. 177 There is considerable circumstantial evidence for the equation of a Merovingian tremissis with an Anglo-Saxon gold shilling. 1983Times 6 Apr. 16/4 The discovery of a remarkable Visigothic tremiss minted in gold in Southern Gaul in AD 455–475, in the final levels of one site excavated in late 1982, shows that some form of ‘urban’ life continued until nearly the end of the fifth century. |