bga_271531 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et à la croix tréflée, BN 8427
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Bronze au cheval et à la croix tréflée, BN 8427
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 2,18 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie bien identifiable et complète, sur un flan relativement large avec une patine brun vert mais granuleuse en surface
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée à gauche, torque au cou ; devant la face, trois globules.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre au galop à droite ; au-dessus, un annelet ; entre les pattes, une croix tréflée surmontée de trois annelets.
Commentary
Ce type était très rare en 1977 et le reste encore aujourd’hui. Ce n’est que le second que nous proposons après celui de MONNAIES II, n° 537 = MONNAIES XV, n° 1225 = bga_189893.
This type was very rare in 1977 and remains so today. This is only the second one we offer after that of COINS II, No. 537 = COINS XV, No. 1225 = bga_189893
This type was very rare in 1977 and remains so today. This is only the second one we offer after that of COINS II, No. 537 = COINS XV, No. 1225 = bga_189893
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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