Dated Consular Issue

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 745. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tacitus. AD 275-276. Antoninianus (3.68 g, 6h). Ticinum mint, 4th officina. 2nd emission, AD 276. IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG COS III, radiate and mantled bust left, holding eagle-tipped scepter and mappa in left / PROVIDE AVG, Providentia standing facing, head left, holding globe in right hand and transverse scepter in left; Q. RIC V 120 corr.; BN pl. 91, 367; Venèra 1849-1850. EF, much silvering remains. Very rare dated consular issue.