v25_0768 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze à la croisette
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 145.00 €
Type : Bronze à la croisette
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,7 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,47 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bronze frappé sur un flan court, mais relativement bien centré. Revers avec des cassures de coin (?) assez peu lisible. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à gauche, la chevelure en arrière ; une croisette bouletée sur la joue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à gauche ; une sorte de bucrane entre les jambes.
Commentary
Bronze proche du DT 372, avec une variante de revers. Le tatouage sur la joue pourrait-être une imitation des drachmes du type LT 6017 dont des copies de la même série sont référencées sous le DT 498.
Bronze close to DT 372, with a reverse variant. The tattoo on the cheek could be an imitation of the drachmas of type LT 6017, copies of which from the same series are referenced under DT 498
Bronze close to DT 372, with a reverse variant. The tattoo on the cheek could be an imitation of the drachmas of type LT 6017, copies of which from the same series are referenced under DT 498
Historical background
AMBIANI (Area of Amiens)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
Their name, "those who are on both sides of the river", indicates that the Ambiens, people of Belgian Gaul, occupied both banks of the Somme (Samara). Their territory corresponds to the current department of the Somme. Their neighbors were the Calètes, the Morins, the Atrébates, the Bellovaques. Their main oppidum was Samarobriva (near Amiens). They participated in the coalition of the Belgian peoples in 57 BC and provided a contingent of ten thousand men. In 52 BC, it was a contingent of five thousand men that they gave for the relief army dedicated to clearing Alesia. Caesar (BG. II, 4, 15; VII, 75; VIII, 7). Strabo (G. IV, 5). Kruta: 68, 110, 366.
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