Live auction - brm_476279 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 331 € |
| Maximum bid : | 350 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 June 2018 14:41:48 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: novembre - décembre
Date: 275
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,78 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large et ovale bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Tacite. Joli revers avec la légende fautée. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Philippe Lacoste
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié de Tacite à droite, avec cuirasse et paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus", (Empereur César Marc Claude Tacite Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SPES P-ABLICA/ -|-// XXIE (SIC !).
Reverse description : Spes (l’Espérance) marchant à gauche, tenant une fleur de la main droite et relevant sa robe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Spes Publica”, (L’Espérance Publique).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Exemplaire fauté au revers avec P-ABLICA au lieu de PVBLICA. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés et à la base en ligne du Roman Imperial Coinage.
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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