v08_0473 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 335.39 €
Realised price : 182.94 €
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 335.39 €
Realised price : 182.94 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Pièce de qualité exceptionnelle avec un portrait magnifique
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M 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 Marc Claude Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SA-LV-S - AVG//XXI.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à gauche, tenant de la main droite une patère, y nourrissant un serpent enroulé autour d'un autel, et de la main gauche un sceptre long.
Reverse legend : D
Reverse translation : (La Santé de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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