v31_0494 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: novembre - décembre
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Italie, Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,47 g.
Officine: 4e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
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 (B).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Claude Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVID-E AVG// Q.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) debout à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Augusti”, (La Providence de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3.
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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