brm_243504 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: mai - juin
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,50 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Tacite. Joli revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Très belle patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CL TACITVS P F 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 Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Claude Tacite pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : TEMPORVM FELICITAS/ -|*// IIII.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant un caducée long de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Temporum Felicitas”, (La Félicité du temps).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
With its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. This is the first time we have offered this type for sale.
With its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. 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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