brm_227889 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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Price : 25.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: janvier
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,65 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan épais. Concrétions vertes cachant l’argenture sous-jacente. Beau portrait
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 : FIDES M-ILITVM/ -|-// BA.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) drapée, debout à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Fides Militum”, (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges. Dans le trésor de La Venèra, nous avons cinq exemplaires et trois exemplaires appartiennent aux collections nationales du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF. Le Docteur Bastien avait relevé quarante-et-un exemplaires dans son corpus en 1976.
Very heavy weight. Type 3 ribbons. Wide pteryges. In the La Venèra treasure, we have five examples and three examples belong to the national collections of the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF. Doctor Bastien had noted forty-one examples in his corpus in 1976
Very heavy weight. Type 3 ribbons. Wide pteryges. In the La Venèra treasure, we have five examples and three examples belong to the national collections of the Cabinet des médailles of the BnF. Doctor Bastien had noted forty-one examples in his corpus in 1976
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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