Ex Dimitriadis, Dreesman, Biaggi de Blasys, and Récamier Collections

CNG 102, Lot: 1085. Estimate $7500. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tacitus. AD 275-276. AV Aureus (21mm, 4.27 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. 1st emission, AD 275. IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PAX PVBLICA, Pax standing left, holding olive branch in right hand and transverse scepter with left. RIC V 3; BN –; Calicó 4078 (this coin illustrated); Biaggi 1596 (this coin); Lyon 13b (this coin). Good VF, wavy flan, a few light marks.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection (Heritage, 10 April 2014), lot 23639 (hammer $8500; incorrectly attributed to Bastien [Lyon] 13c); Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesmann Collection (Spink, 13 April 2010), lot 53; Ceresio (26 September 1987), lot 325; Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 1596; Ciani & Vinchon (6 May 1955), lot 419; Helbing 63 (29 April 1931), lot 1245; Etienne Récamier Collection (Bourgey, 2 March 1925), lot 474.