v36_0710 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: mai - juin
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Gaule, Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,07 g.
Officine: 3e
Emission: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large et irrégulier ayant conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine au droit. Portrait magnifique de réalisme. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés
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 : SALV-S AVG/ C|*// -.
Reverse description : Salus (la Santé) debout à droite, tenant une patère de la main gauche et nourrissant un serpent qu'elle tient de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Salus Augusti”, (La Santé de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Cassure de coin perceptible au revers, au niveau du S de SALVS. Nous n’avons relevé aucune identité de coin pertinente.
Very light weight. With full silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. Die break visible on the reverse, at the S of SALVS. We have not noted any relevant die identities.
Very light weight. With full silver plating. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. Die break visible on the reverse, at the S of SALVS. We have not noted any relevant die identities.
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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