v36_1329 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au sanglier et au cavalier
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze au sanglier et au cavalier
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Jolie bronze typique de ce monnayage. Le droit est bombé et finement patiné alors que le revers est scyphate avec une épaisse patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Sanglier enseigne à droite ; sous la tête, un bucrane ; dans le champ; des annelets.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier passant à gauche, tenant un torque ; dans le champ, annelets et globules.
Commentary
Sur cet exemplaire le sanglier du droit est particulièrement bien venu ; le bucrane sous le groin y est bien net. La variété 2 du Nouvel Atlas a la particularité d’avoir ce bucrane mais aussi la lettre A sous la jambe avant du cheval, au revers ; cette lettre est partiellement hors flan, mais il est possible de la restituer.
On this example the wild boar on the right is particularly good; the bucranium under the snout is very clear. Variety 2 of the New Atlas has the particularity of having this bucrane but also the letter A under the front leg of the horse, on the reverse; this letter is partially off the blank, but it is possible to restore it
On this example the wild boar on the right is particularly good; the bucranium under the snout is very clear. Variety 2 of the New Atlas has the particularity of having this bucrane but also the letter A under the front leg of the horse, on the reverse; this letter is partially off the blank, but it is possible to restore it
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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