RIC temp #4107

Temp №: 4107
Reign Tacitus
Person Tacitus
Mint Tripolis
Issue 1
Issue name
Datation November – December 275
Denomination Aurei
obverse reverse
Obverse coin Revers coin
Titulature IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG Legend P M TB P VI COS II P P
Obverse mark Reverse mark –/–//•
Bust code D1* Reverse code Virtus 2
Bust description Bust right, laureate, cuirassed and draped with paludamentum Reverse description Virtus walking r., holding transverse spear pointing forward in r. hand and trophy over l. shoulder.

Note Same obverse die. The dated reverse die of an aureus in the name of Aurelianus 3230 has been reused under Tacitus for the aureus in Saint-Petersbourg (Estiot 1990).
Reference Est. 119

Specimens of this coin type
Location Reference Quantity Weight Axis Remark
Saint-Petersbourg Estiot 1999/2, 119a = BNC pl.98, 504 1 6.56 6 photo
CNG, 63, 21/V/2003, 1519 = Noble Numismatics, 97, 26/VII/2011, 3240 1 6.58 photo