Live auction - brm_736831 - TACITUS Aureus
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| Estimate : | 15 000 € |
| Price : | 9 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 9 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 07 June 2022 15:36:54 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Aureus
Date: janvier - juin
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 4,56 g.
Rarity : R3
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Superbe revers, finement détaillé, bien venu à la frappe. Joli buste de l’empereur. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire sous coque NGC Ch XF (Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5), brushed. Cet exemplaire provient de la collection de Sir John Evans (1823-1908), Rollin et Feuardent, 26 et 27 mai 1909, n° 267, pl. XII
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Tacite à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Marc Claude Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ROMAE - AET-ERNAE // S C.
Reverse description : Roma (Rome) casquée et drapée assise à gauche, tenant un globe surmonté d’une Victoire de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Romæ Æternæ”, (À la Rome éternelle).
Commentary
Cet exemplaire est illustré dans l’ouvrage de X. Calico,The Roman Aurei, Catalogue, vol. II, p. 702, n° 4096.
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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