Aurelianus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Tacitus

Art Institute of Chicago

Aurelianus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Tacitus

Roman, minted in Ticinum
Date
276 (January-June), issued by Tacitus
Medium
Billon
Culture
Roman Empire
Department
Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

The front (obverse) of this coin portrays the empperor Tacitus, facing right and wearing a radiate crown, cuirass and paludamentum. On the back (reverse), the figure of Providence stands, facing left while holding a globe and a scepter.

The authoritative record is held by Art Institute of Chicago. LinkedCulture surfaces this object and its connections; it does not alter institutional metadata.

Get printable QR codes

Open QR codes for this object page and the museum record. They stay collapsed until needed.

Open this page
See at Art Institute of Chicago

Linked open data

Authority identifiers that link this record into the wider web of cultural data — stable references you can follow to the source.

Object type
AAT300037334

Related across collections

Semantically similar works from Art Institute of Chicago and other institutions.