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               CNG - Tacitus. Antoninianus. LEFT FACING BUST
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               Coins & Stamps:Coins:Non-US:Ancient, Medieval
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     Tacitus. 275-276 AD. Antoninianus (3.10 gm). "Gaul" mint.
     Radiate, cuirassed bust left / VIRTVS AVG, soldier standing left
     with spear. RIC V, pt. 1, 67. VF, black patina. Rare with left
     bust! 715586.

     The Historia Augusta states Tacitus was an elderly Senator,
     descended from the historian of the same name, who took the
     burden of Empire upon himself at the urging of the Senate and the
     request of an army shamed by its murder of the great Aurelian.
     Modern scholars have cast doubt on this account, arguing that
     Tacitus was just another in a long line of short-lived
     soldier-Emperors. In a recent article in the Celator, however,
     collector and 3rd century specialist Marco Arrigoni convincingly
     argues that the HA account may contain a kernal of truth.
     Tacitus’ coin portraits, which depict an aged, jowly man with an
     elaborately curled beard, are drastically different from those of
     his immediate predecessors and successors. He apparently reigned
     about six months, in which time he inflicted a major defeat on
     the Goths in Cilicia, but died soon thereafter. Either he
     succumbed to old age and overexertion or his own troops mutinied
     and murdered him.

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