v15_1219 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze à la tête coupée de face
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze à la tête coupée de face
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,31 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Pièce sur un petit flan ovale, légèrement scyphate. Faiblesse de frappe au droit. Jolie patine vert olive foncé et sable. Très joli revers de style fin
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à gauche, la chevelure disposée en deux rangées de mèches.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre passant à gauche ; au-dessus, tête coupée de face ; devant le cheval deux annelets pointés.
Commentary
Cette variété avec le cheval à gauche était inédite en 1977. Au revers, il semble bien s’agir d’une tête coupée alors que sur le type (DT. 391), nous avons les restes d’un buste avec un torque, placé sous la tête.
This variety with the horse on the left was unpublished in 1977. On the reverse, it seems to be a severed head while on the type (DT. 391), we have the remains of a bust with a torque, placed under the head
This variety with the horse on the left was unpublished in 1977. On the reverse, it seems to be a severed head while on the type (DT. 391), we have the remains of a bust with a torque, placed under the head
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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