brm_462537 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: début - mai 276
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,61 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais et bien centré avec un très beau buste. Patine marron foncé
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Exemplaire provenant de la collection Thierry Petit
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 Caesar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus", (Empereur César Marc Claude Tacite Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VBERTAS AVG// XXI.
Reverse description : Uberitas (la Fertilité) debout à gauche, tenant une bourse de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse legend : e.
Reverse translation : “Uberitas Augusti”, (La Fertilité de l’Auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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