brm_235443 - TACITUS Aurelianus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 70.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2024)
Price : 70.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: juin
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 3,83 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large et ovale, bien centré des deux cotés. Monnaie avec une fente à une heure et un point de concrétion sur le portrait sinon superbe revers. Patine grise
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 : PA-X - AVG/ (DELTA)|A.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) drapée, marchant à gauche, tenant un rameau d’olivier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Augusti”, (La Paix de l’auguste).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture. Mêmes coins que l’exemplaire du Cabinet des médailles de la Bibliothèque Nationale. C’est le troisième exemplaire recensé et la première fois que nous en passons un à la vente !.
With all its silvering. Same corners as the example of the Cabinet of Medals of the National Library. This is the third example identified and the first time that we have put one up for sale!
With all its silvering. Same corners as the example of the Cabinet of Medals of the National Library. This is the third example identified and the first time that we have put one up 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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