Live auction - brm_477002 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 1 500 € |
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| End of the sale : | 05 June 2018 14:42:18 |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,46 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et mince parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau portrait inhabituel de Tacite à l’usure régulière. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Philippe Lacoste
Obverse
Obverse legend : IM-P C M CL TACITVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste héroïque radié, nu de Tacite à gauche, vu de trois quarts en arrière avec le balteus (lanière) et un bouclier orné de l’égide et d’une petite tête de Gorgone de la main gauche, la lance en avant (F19)
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Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus”, (L’mpereur césar Marc Claude Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS PVBLI/ -|-// T.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à droite, drapée, nourrissant un serpent qu’elle tient dans ses bras.
Reverse translation : “Salus Publica”, (La Santé Publique).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture superficielle. Un seul ruban visible. Les deux exemplaires photographiés (BNC, p. 333 et n°372, pl. 92 et Lanz 120, n° 538) semblent de même coin de droit mais ils ont tous les deux des rubans de type 3. Seulement trois exemplaires recensés (dont Hamburger 51, n° 693). C’est le quatrième exemplaire recensé. Manque à la collection du Cabinet des médailles (BnF) ainsi qu’à tous les musées !.
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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