v32_0478 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début - juin
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Italie, Ticinum
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 4,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large, ovale et irrégulier avec les grènetis visibles et complets. Beau portrait. Revers de haut relief. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
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 : SECVRIT PERP// U.
Reverse description : Securitas (la Sécurité) drapée, debout à gauche, les jambes croisées, le coude gauche appuyé sur une colonne et portant son bras gauche au-dessus de la tête.
Reverse translation : “Securitas Perpetua”, (La Sécurité perpétuelle).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges.
Heavyweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Wide pteryges
Heavyweight. With all its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Wide pteryges
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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