v21_3319 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 03-04/276
Mint name / Town : Pannonie Supérieure, Siscia (Sisak)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,45 g.
Officine: 5e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Patine vert olive foncé avec des reflets métalliques. Joli revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES V, 12 décembre 1998, n° 408
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CLA 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 : FELICITAS S-AECVLI// V.
Reverse description : Felicitas (La Félicité) debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite, sacrifiant au-dessus d'un autel allumé, et de la main gauche un caducée long.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Sæculi”, (La Félicité du siècle).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture.
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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