brm_219391 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 95.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 95.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,92 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis Complets. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin avec une usure superficielle. Jolie patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CL 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 : VICTO-R[IA] - GOTTHI/ -|-// P.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) debout à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Gotthica”, (La Victoire gothique).
Commentary
Sans argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines et tombantes sous le paludamentum.
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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