If you spend some time searching you will see that
imitative coins of
Tacitus are very
rare and look totally different.
This is a clearly an
imitative (a "
barbarous radiate") from same period as the Tetricii imitations. I, and I am sure many others here on the
forum, have literally looked at thousands of such coins. The
style of both
obverse and the
reverse figure (both of which, as I initially pointed out, appear on both sides due to the flipped strike) are absolutely in line with Tetricii imitations and not at all in line with Tacitus-era imitations.
The actual
legend is entirely irrelevant as Tetricii imitations appear with everything ranging from near perfect inscriptions to entirely illegible squiggles. Yours is in the middle with legible letters that don't make entire sense.
There is, in fact, a long
history of people, dating back to the 18th century, who believed that they
had discovered unknown new Emperors because they read blundered legends on Tetricii era imitations as new names before it was recognized that the legends were often simply blundered, or made by illiterate forgers.
SC