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Live auction - brm_168892 - TACITUS Aurelianus

TACITUS Aurelianus AU
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Estimate : 180 €
Price : 90 €
Maximum bid : 90 €
End of the sale : 13 January 2026 15:39:39
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Aurelianus
Date: fin 275 - mai 276
Date: 275 - 276
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,31 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Très jolie patine vert noir lissée
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet

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 (A).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus", (L’empereur césar Marc Claude Tacite auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : FELICITAS S-AECVLI/ -|V// -.
Reverse description : Felicitas (la Félicité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et un caducée de la gauche ; à ses pieds, à gauche, un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Saeculi”, (La Félicité du Siècle).

Commentary


Sans argenture. Poids léger. Rubans de type 3, Ptéryges fines. Exemplaire sans marque à l’exergue (XXI). S. Estiot ne recense pas non plus cette rarissime variante (BN/RXII.1, p. 368). Dans ROME XIV, n° 121, l’état de conservation de la pièce proposée ne permettait pas de savoir si la marque était absente à l’exergue. Avec notre exemplaire, nous en avons la confirmation et la lecture de cet aurelianus vient completer la compréhension du fonctionnement de l’atelier de Siscia pendant la première émission.
Without silvering. Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons, Fine pteryga. example without mark in the exergue (XXI). S. Estiot does not identify this extremely rare variant either (BN/RXII.1, p. 368). In ROME With our example, we have confirmation and reading this aurelianus completes the understanding of the functioning of Siscia's workshop during the first issue

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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