281, Lot: 421. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tacitus. AD 275-276. Antoninianus (23mm, 3.69 g, 12h). Siscia mint, 5th officina. 1st emission, November-December AD 275. IMP C M CL TACITVS AVG, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust right / Felicitas standing left, sacrificing from patera over altar and holding long caduceus; V. RIC V 184 (Serdica) var.; BN 1730-5 var. Good VF, numerous cleaning scratches.

Apparently an otherwise unrecorded legend variant from the first emission at Siscia. The normal legend reads IMP C M CLA... instead of the shorter IMP C M CL... as found here. This abbreviated version, however, appears on the second emission, but with a different ending (...P AVG instead of simply ...AVG).