| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 482 Price realized: 1,800 GBP (Approx. 2,280 USD / 2,099 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Pacatian AR Antoninianus. Viminacium, AD 248-249. IMP TI CL MAR PACATIANVS P F IN(?), radiate, draped and cuirassed bust to right / PAX AETERNA, Pax standing to left, holding branch and transverse sceptre. Cf. RIC IV 5 (R4). 4.28g, 20mm, 8h. Good Very Fine. Very Rare. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Live Auction 3, 25 October 2018, lot 823 (hammer: GBP 1,800). Tiberius Claudius Marinus Pacatianus was raised to the purple by his troops, and then killed by them within a matter of months and before Trajan Decius, sent by the Emperor Philip I, was able to tackle him himself. Usurping power in the region of the Danube, later writers such as Zosimus relate that he was an officer of the army and perhaps of senatorial rank. Though no specific reasons for the rebellion are clear from the sources, the Danube frontier is known to have been threatened repeatedly by the Goths, and the sheer number of uprisings in this area led by the army is suggestive of serious and continuing unrest. Though at least seven reverse types are known for Pacatian, the remaining coinage is extremely rare and in the main of poor quality. One reverse type, featuring Roma seated, securely dates Pacatian's revolt to AD 248 as it commemorates the 1000th anniversary of the founding of Rome, an event that Philip I also marked on his coinage. Viminacium is taken to be the mint for Pacatian's coinage due to similarities in style to other issues from this mint, and also because for the period of the rebellion no coins of Philip I were produced there. Estimate: 1200 GBP |  |
