bga_580450 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Denier d'argent scyphate dit “à l'hippocampe”
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Type : Denier d'argent scyphate dit “à l'hippocampe”
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 0,51 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier bien centré. Frappe brouillée au droit. Joli revers
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Exemplaire provenant de la collection C.N.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée stylisée à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite, la crinière perlée, la tête formée par un petit triangle ouvert à l’extrémité globulée ; au-dessus, une S inversée et pointée ; entre les pattes, un protomé d’hippocampe à gauche ; devant le poitrail, un petit chevron.
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce denier appartient à la classe E de la typologie d'Allen qu'il appelle "type au serpent" ou à la classe 1b de S. Scheers, variété stylisée du type à l'hippocampe. Dans le nouveau classement de J.-P. Delestrée et M. Tache, ce type se retrouve dans la série 31 A, type lamellaire " à la tête de Pallas" et appartient à la classe 1 à l'hippocampe.
Lightweight. This coin belongs to class E of Allen's typology which he calls \\\"snake type\\\" or to class 1b of S. Scheers, stylized variety of the seahorse type. In the new classification of J.-P. Delestrée and M. Tache, this type is found in series 31 A, lamellar type \\\"at the head of Pallas\\\" and belongs to class 1 at the hippocampus
Lightweight. This coin belongs to class E of Allen's typology which he calls \\\"snake type\\\" or to class 1b of S. Scheers, stylized variety of the seahorse type. In the new classification of J.-P. Delestrée and M. Tache, this type is found in series 31 A, lamellar type \\\"at the head of Pallas\\\" and belongs to class 1 at the hippocampus
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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