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S3301 of Tacitus

Tacitus Silvered Antoninianus. IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate head right / CLEMENTIA TEMP, Clementia standing left with scepter, leaning on column, XXIZ in ex. RIC 84, Cohen 16.

Lot No.1915. gVF with virtually intact 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.