Teodorico re dei Goti (493 526)

Coin depicting Flavius Theodoricus (Theodoric the Great). Roman Vassal and King of the Ostrogoths. This coin, from the collection of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, is the only example known. It is now in Palazzo Massimo, Rome. This highly stylized coin may be among the only reliable surviving portraits of Theodoric.

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