brm_850287 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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Price : 120.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début - juin
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,60 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, épais, centré. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
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 Csar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus", (L’empereur ésar Marc Claude Tacite Auaguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PRO-VIDEN D-EOR// KA.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) debout à droite, tenant une enseigne de chaque main. Face à elle, Sol (le Soleil) radié, debout à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la gauche.
Reverse legend : .G
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum”, (La Providence des dieux).
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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