v21_3320 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 275 - mai 276
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Séleucie et Piérie, Antioche (Antiochia ad Orontem)
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,62 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait inhabituel. Beau revers. Avec son argenture. Flan légèrement taché
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C TACITVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Tacite à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Tacitus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDENT DE-OR/ S//XXI.
Reverse description : Tacite debout à gauche, tourné à droite, vêtu militairement recevant un globe de Jupiter nu debout à droite, tourné à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Providentia Deorum", (La Providence des dieux).
Commentary
Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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