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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | 150 € |
| Maximum bid : | 155 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 October 2017 15:09:41 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: décembre 275 - début 276
Date: 275-276
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,27 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan ovale bien centré avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Tacite. Revers de style fin et de haut relief. Magnifique patine de médaillier gris foncé avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 1996 et provient de la collection François Charrin
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 Cæsar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Pius Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Claude Tacite pieux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX A-VGVSTI/ -|Q// -.
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
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges très fines 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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