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Price : 130.00 €
Type : Aurelianus
Date: novembre - décembre
Date: 275
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,73 g.
Officine: sans marque
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan épais, idéalement centré des deux côtés. Buste de toute beauté. Patine grise
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Guercheville
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C M CL TACITVS P F 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 Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Marc Claude Tacite pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PAX - P-VB-LICA/ -|-// -.
Reverse description : Pax (la Paix) debout à gauche, tenant un rameau d'olivier de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Pax Publica”, (La Paix publique).
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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