v23_0598 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
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Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Serdica, Sofia
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,83 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Portrait magnifique et inhabituel. Flan large et complet des deux côtés. Patine vert olive foncé. Revers bien venu à la frappe et de style fin
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C TACITVS INVICTVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié drapé et cuirassé de Tacite à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Tacitus Invictus Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Tacite invincible auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PRO-VIDEN D-EOR//.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) et Sol (le Soleil) debout face à face ; la Fidélité est debout à gauche tournée à droite drapée, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire ; Sol est debout à droite, tourné à gauche ; il est radié, nu, le manteau sur l’épaule, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : KAD
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum”, (La Providence divine).
Commentary
Le seul exemplaire signalé dans les ouvrages de référence, celui de S. Estiot est l’aurelianus conservé au musée de Vienne qui est de coins différents. Semble de la plus grande rareté avec la légende “Invictus”.
The only example reported in reference works, that of S. Estiot, is the aurelianus preserved in the Vienna Museum, which is of different coins. It seems to be of great rarity with the legend “Invictus”.
The only example reported in reference works, that of S. Estiot, is the aurelianus preserved in the Vienna Museum, which is of different coins. It seems to be of great rarity with the legend “Invictus”.
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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