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Visigothic solidus accounting

Kurt identifies Roman gold coinage as the Visigothic starting point and describes close early imitation.1

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Visigothic Code VII.6.v imposes compensation of three gold solidi and a judicial payment of one-third solidus for refusing acceptable money. The translation is editorially dated c. 681; that approximate observation is not a currency foundation.2

Kurt identifies Roman gold coinage as the Visigothic starting point and describes close early imitation. He discusses prestige alongside fiscal and other uses. The admitted Roman-to-Visigothic account ancestry rests additionally on continued solidus reckoning; visual imitation is corroboration, and a universal legitimacy motive is not assumed.1

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Roman solidus–nomisma accounting → Visigothic solidus accounting

Qualified regional currency continuity · 400–681

Visigothic law and finance retained Roman solidus accounting after local solidus coin production ceased. Admit a regional continuation, with its differentiation chronology unresolved.3

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Visigothic Code VII.6.v imposes compensation of three gold solidi and a judicial payment of one-third solidus for refusing acceptable money. The translation is editorially dated c. 681; that approximate observation is not a currency foundation.2

Kurt identifies Roman gold coinage as the Visigothic starting point and describes close early imitation. He discusses prestige alongside fiscal and other uses. The admitted Roman-to-Visigothic account ancestry rests additionally on continued solidus reckoning; visual imitation is corroboration, and a universal legitimacy motive is not assumed.1

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  1. Andrew Kurt · Visigothic Currency in its Making and Movement (2019)

    Printed pp. 168–170 and 178–180; Roman models, proposed functions, and continued solidus accounting

  2. Visigothic Code; Cave and Coulson translation via Fordham · On Coinage, c. 681

    VII.6.v; Zeumer edition pp. 309–310

  3. Andrew Kurt · Visigothic Currency in its Making and Movement (2019)

    pp. 168,178–180, notes 24–31

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“Visigothic solidus accounting.” The Family Tree of Money. Field Technologies, Inc. Data v49; accessed 14 October 2026.

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