Watch List notes:

Tacitus, 275-276. Antoninianus (Silvered bronze, 23 mm, 4.59 g, 1 h), Serdica, early-June 276. IMP C TACITVS INVICTVS AVG Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Tacitus to right. Rev. PROVIDEN DEOR / ✱ / KA•Γ Fides standing right, holding two signa and facing Sol standing left, raising his right hand in salute and holding globe in his left. Cohen 95. RIC 197. RIC V online 3953.4 (this coin). Rare. Boldly struck and very attractive. Extremely fine.


From the collection of a maître cuisinier and from the P. Gysen Collection, Jacquier 45, 14 September 2018, 1327, previously privately acquired from Manton & Ass, London, in November 1994.