v15_1241 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au swastika
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 155.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 155.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 205.00 €
Starting price : 155.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Realised price : 155.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 205.00 €
Type : Bronze au swastika
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,34 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de flan large de forme scyphate. Patine vert clair et marron, légèrement granuleuse. Très joli revers
Catalogue references :
LT.manque - BN.manque - ABT.- - Sch/L.- - Sch/SM.- - Sch/D.- - Sch/GB.manque - DT.522 - LPD.26 p. 75
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES II, 21 juin 1997, n° 553
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Quatre serpents ou encolures de chevaux anguipèdes, tirant la langue autour d'un annelet centré, formant un swastika dextrogyre.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite, à la fine crinière perlée ; au-dessus, un triskèle partant de l’encolure ; entre les jambes un annelet centré ; deux autres annelets, accostant les antérieurs.
Commentary
Le symbole au-dessus du cheval était décrit comme un oiseau ; ce serait en fait un triskèle dont le troisième élément serait constitué par l’encolure perlée du cheval.
The symbol above the horse was described as a bird; it would in fact be a triskelion whose third element would be the horse's pearly neckline
The symbol above the horse was described as a bird; it would in fact be a triskelion whose third element would be the horse's pearly neckline
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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