v09_0468 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
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Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : + 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Portrait de qualité exceptionnelle avec une patine mordorée et son argenture / Pièce qui ne porte pas de trace de circulation, mais avec une faiblesse de frappe sur la légende au revers
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 : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus", (L'empereur césar Marc Claude Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LAETI-TIA FVND// XXIB.
Reverse description : Lætitia (la Joie) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un gouvernail de la main gauche, placé sur la proue d'une galère à droite.
Reverse translation : "Lætitia Fundata", (La Joie retrouvée).
Commentary
Poids léger. Le bêta de la marque d'exergue semble regravé sur un gamma (XXIB).
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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