Der Phoenix auf den Aurei Hadrians und Tacitus' Annalen VI, 28

Abstract

The old discussion about the date of composition of Tacitus's Annals has come into motion again, and certain coins play a part in it: gold pieces struck at the very beginning of Hadrian's reign, with the bust of the deified Trajan on the obverse and on the reverse, without legend, a nimbate phoenix standing, or standing on a laurel branch. Paul Strack connected these issues with the passage Annals VI 28, where Tacitus reports the bird's appearance in Egypt under the consulship of Fabius and Vitellius, assembles the learned opinions of Egyptians and Greeks, gives the intervals of five hundred or 1461 years and lists the earlier appearances down to the flight to Heliopolis.

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Suggested citation

Castritius, Helmut: Der Phoenix auf den Aurei Hadrians und Tacitus' Annalen VI, 28. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 14 (1964), pp. 89–95.

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