Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1580. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TACITUS. 275-276 AD. AV Aureus (4.11 g, 5h). Serdica mint. 1st emission, November-December 275 AD. IMP C M CL TACITVS P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / PAX PERPETVA, Pax standing left, holding branch in extended right hand, transverse sceptre in left. RIC V 73 (Rome); S. Estiot, "L'or romain entre crise et restitution (270-276 apr. J.-C.) II. Tacite et Florien," Journal des savants 1991/2, 88; BN p. 403 and pl. 95, 441; Calicó 4077 (Rarity 3); Hunter -; Cohen -. Near EF, a few tiny marks. Extremely rare reverse. ($5000)