E-auction 608-583582 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 275 - mai 276
Date: 275-276
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Tacite. Joli revers de style fin. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CL TACITVS P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Tacite à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Pius Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Claude Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX A-VGVSTI/ -|Q// XXI.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant une branche d’olivier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l’Auguste).
Commentary
Sans argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Même coin de droit que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF (BN/RXII.1/ 1759, pl. 58).
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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