bga_1058561 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au casque et à la tête de face
275.00 €(Approx. 319.00$ | 239.25£)
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Type : Bronze au casque et à la tête de face
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 2,35 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Beau bronze bien centré, avec de hauts reliefs des deux côtés. État rare pour le type. Patine marron, de petits points de concrétion
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Casque gaulois orné.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Tête coupée de face, dans un torque à tampons.
Commentary
Ce type de représentation de face est assez rare dans le monnayage gaulois. Dans le Nouvel Atlas, la description du revers donne “tête humaine de face au centre d’un fin grènetis”.
This type of frontal representation is quite rare in Gallic coinage. In the New Atlas, the description of the reverse gives “human head facing in the center of a fine grain”
This type of frontal representation is quite rare in Gallic coinage. In the New Atlas, the description of the reverse gives “human head facing in the center of a fine grain”
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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