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RIC 193 of Tacitus

Tacitus AE Antoninianus. Serdica mint. IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate bust right, slight drapery / CONSERVAT MILIT, Mars standing to left handing a globe to Tacitus, A between, KA in ex. Cohen 25.

Lot No.1922. VF with great silvering.

$ 175.

Tacitus (275-276 AD) was a 75 year old senator when the Senate elected him emperor. He defeated the Goths in Asia Minor, but age caught up with him soon afterward and he died, leaving us a relatively limited number of coins of his reign.