v08_0469 - TACITUS Aurelianus de poids lourd
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 289.65 €
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Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 289.65 €
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Type : Aurelianus de poids lourd
Date: 12/275
Mint name / Town : Lyonnaise, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,00 g.
Officine: 3e
Emission: 1e
Coments on the condition:
Portrait magnifique de très haut relief. Avec toute son argenture / Joli revers avec un aspect légèrement granuleux
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C CL TACITVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Tacite à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : (L'empereur césar Claude Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVID DEOR.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout à gauche, tenant une baguette de la main droite placée au-dessus d'un globe et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : (La Providence divine).
Historical background
TACITUS
(11-12/275-06/276)
According to A. Chastagnol, the interregnum lasts nearly two months, between the end of September and the beginning of December 275 at most. The same researcher establishes that Tacitus was not elected by the Senate alone, but with the help of the army, during a diplomatic ballet between Rome and the Pannonian armies, so that Tacitus would accept the purple. The date of his elevation poses a problem and the traditional date of September 25 may be called into question if the interregnum lasts until December. At the beginning of 276, Tacitus left Rome to fight the Goths who had invaded Asia Minor. He was finally assassinated at Tyana in Cappadocia..
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