v15_1223 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze à la tête humaine
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze à la tête humaine
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,60 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante mais parfaitement identifiable. Patine marron granuleuse. Revers bien visible
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Restes de tête humaine à droite avec la couronne et l’œil, placé au milieu, l’arcade marquée de deux esses inversées.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre passant à droite ; au-dessus, une tête humaine de face ; entre les jambes du cheval, un petit sanglier à droite.
Commentary
Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés. Semble de la plus grande rareté. Le droit semble directement inspiré par la série tri-métallique à l’astre (DT. série 42A) et le revers par le monnayage ambien à la tête humaine de face (DT. série 47).
Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from all consulted works. Appears to be extremely rare. The obverse appears to be directly inspired by the tri-metallic series with the star (DT. series 42A) and the reverse by the Ambien coinage with the human head facing (DT. series 47)
Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from all consulted works. Appears to be extremely rare. The obverse appears to be directly inspired by the tri-metallic series with the star (DT. series 42A) and the reverse by the Ambien coinage with the human head facing (DT. series 47)
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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