brm_685538 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 275 - mai 276
Date: 275-276
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,95 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, épais, centré des deux côtés. Très joli buste de Tacite. Patine grise
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CL TACITVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Tacite à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Claude Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDENTIA DEORVM// S.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant un bâton de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche ; à ses pieds, à gauche, un globe.
Reverse translation : "Providentia Deorum", (La Providence Divine).
Commentary
Correspond au RIC temp. n° 3645 (15 ex.).
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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