bga_241131 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze à la tête casquée et au cheval, DT. 382
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 60.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 60.00 €
Type : Bronze à la tête casquée et au cheval, DT. 382
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,3 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan un peu court, avec un droit plutôt mou mais un revers correcte. Patine brune, avec une légère concrétion verte plus ou moins épaisse
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Ce bronze provient de la collection P. Gendre
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à gauche, la crinière indépendante du cou ; un annelet centré entre les jambes.
Commentary
Cet exemplaire est le premier que nous proposons de ce type rare. Il semble être de même coin de revers que le DT. 382. Ce dernier est indiqué provenir de Bray-sur-Somme (Somme).
This example is the first we offer of this rare type. It appears to be of the same reverse die as DT. 382. The latter is indicated to come from Bray-sur-Somme (Somme)
This example is the first we offer of this rare type. It appears to be of the same reverse die as DT. 382. The latter is indicated to come from Bray-sur-Somme (Somme)
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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