E-auction 230-153967 - brm_265060 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 71 € |
| Maximum bid : | 77 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 September 2017 14:10:00 |
| bidders : | 9 bidders |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 275 - mai 276
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,00 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,85 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait particulier de Tacite. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
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 : CLEMENTIA T-EMP/ B//XXI.
Reverse description : Tacite debout à gauche, tourné à droite, vêtu militairement recevant un globe de Jupiter nu debout à droite, tourné à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Providentia Deorum", (La Providence des dieux).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Ptéryges larges. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux; Seulement deux exemplaires sont conservés au Cabinet des médailles de la BnF (n° 1818-1819, pl. 63), trois exemplaires au British Museum et trois autres au Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
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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