Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Roman Coins| ▸ |Recovery of the Empire| ▸ |Tacitus||View Options: ![]() ![]() Tacitus was an elderly senator in the reign of Aurelian, and after the latter's death was selected as Augustus by the senate. After personally leading his army in a successful campaign against a Gothic invasion, the emperor, aged around 75, died. |