v36_0707 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: mars - avril
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,90 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type sur un flan régulier. Portrait inhabituel de toute beauté. Revers de style fin et de haut relief. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets mordorés. Conserve son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CL TACITVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Tacite à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Claudius Tacitus Augustus”, (L’empereur Claude Tacite auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : M-AR-S V-ICTOR/ C|A// -.
Reverse description : Mars nu et casqué, le manteau sur l’épaule flottant au vent, tenant une haste transversale de la main droite et un trophée reposant sur l’épaule gauche.
Reverse translation : “Mars Victor”, (Mars victorieux).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines pratiquement invisibles. Trace de cassure de coin au revers dans la légende au niveau VICTOR. Même coin de revers que l’exemplaire du Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne (coll. Kolb, n° 54.612) Bastien 81c, pl. IX. Prendra le numéro 81d dans le Supplément III. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Thin, practically invisible pteryges. Trace of die break on the reverse in the legend at the VICTOR level. Same reverse die as the copy in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Kolb collection, no. 54.612) Bastien 81c, pl. IX. Will take the number 81d in Supplement III. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale
With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Thin, practically invisible pteryges. Trace of die break on the reverse in the legend at the VICTOR level. Same reverse die as the copy in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (Kolb collection, no. 54.612) Bastien 81c, pl. IX. Will take the number 81d in Supplement III. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale
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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