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brm_445087 - TACITUS Aurelianus

TACITUS Aurelianus AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 200.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: début
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,84 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire pour ce type si rare. Joli buste et beau revers. Patine marron avec des traces de l’argenture superficielle
Catalogue references :
ROME 14./-  - RIC.-  - La Venèra. II.2/-  - C.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : M CL TACITVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Tacite à droite, vu de quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : "Marcus Claudius Tacitus Augustus", (Marc Claude Tacite auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : CONSERVAT MILIT/ B// KA.
Reverse description : L’empereur casqué, debout à droite, tenant une haste de la main gauche et recevant de la droite un globe des mains de Jupiter, debout à gauche, tenant un sceptre .
Reverse translation : “Conservator Militum”, (Le Protecteur de l’armée).

Commentary

Type très rare correspondant au RIC temp. n°3915 qui ne recense que trois exemplaires dont le nôtre, provenant de la collection Zanchi.

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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