v28_0333 - TACITUS Double aurelianus
MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Double aurelianus
Date: janvier - juin
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Phénicie, Tripolis
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 100 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,96 g.
Rarity : R3
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Bien centré sur un flan large. Beau portrait. Patine grise avec des traces d’argenture. Fines concrétions vert clair
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 Caesar Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus", (Empereur César Marc Claude Tacite Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CLEMENTIA TEMP/ *|-// IA.
Reverse description : Mars en habit militaire, debout à droite, tenant une haste de la main droite et recevant un globe des mains de l’empereur vêtu militairement, debout à gauche, tenant un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Clementia Temporum”, (La Clémence des temps).
Commentary
Avec des trace d’argenture. Ce type est en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages de référence.
With traces of silver plating. This type is actually much rarer than reference works suggest.
With traces of silver plating. This type is actually much rarer than reference works suggest.
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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