Back 1/1
brm_806686 - TACITUS Aurelianus
Quantity
Add to your cart
Type : Aurelianus
Date: janvier - février
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,41 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Flan ovale, centré. Superbe revers de style fin. Patine grise
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 : SPES PVBLICA/ -|-// CA.
Reverse description : Spes (l'Espérance) marchant à gauche, tenant une fleur de la main droite et relevant un pan de son vêtement de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Spes Publica”, (L’Espérance publique).
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..
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sell
Full data
Your Recently Viewed Items
LOUIS THE PIOUS Denier à la légende chrétienne XF
200.00 €
LANGUEDOC - VISCOUNTCY AND ARCHBISHOPRIC OF NARBONNE - AIMERI VI and GILLES AYCE
400.00 €
SICILY - SYRACUSE Hemilitron XF
135.00 €
SEVERUS ALEXANDER Diassaria AU
95.00 €
Coins of the Roman Empire in The British Museum Volume IV – Antoninus Pius to
130.00 €
Russian Coins 1700-1917, 10th edition SEMENOV Vladimir
24.00 €
cgbfr.com numismatists
