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- ID: 410
Submitter: Jean-Luc
Added: 1998-07-13
Tacitus, 275-276 A.D.
Aureus.
Av.: IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG Laureate and draped bust to r.
Rv.: P M TB P – VI COS II PP Mars, advancing to r., holding spear and trophy.
6,03 g. 12 h.
Ref.: cf. RIC -(Rv. based upon Aurelian, RIC 16).
BoC: 5 1/2, 1980, p.10.
FAKE – Two specimens of this known counterfeit have been reported in July 1998 in England, scuffed and with the story that they have been recently found with a metal dedector.