v36_0720 - TACITUS Aurelianus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 276
Mint name / Town : Thrace, Serdica
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 4e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait à l’usure régulière. Joli revers de style fin. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C TACITVS INVICTVS P 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 Pius Augustus”, (L'empereur césar Tacite invincible pieux 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 : KA.G.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum”, (La Providence divine).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Le seul exemplaire signalé est celui de la vente Classical Numismatic Group (CNG 41, 19 mars 1997, 2196, illustré in BN/RXII.1/ pl. 96, n° 465 ) qui est des mêmes coins que notre exemplaire.
Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum. The only example reported is that of the Classical Numismatic Group sale (CNG 41, March 19, 1997, 2196, illustrated in BN/RXII.1/ pl. 96, n° 465) which is from the same dies as our example
Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Pteryges barely visible under the paludamentum. The only example reported is that of the Classical Numismatic Group sale (CNG 41, March 19, 1997, 2196, illustrated in BN/RXII.1/ pl. 96, n° 465) which is from the same dies as our example
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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