bga_473837 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et à la tête aux cheveux calamistrés
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Price : 140.00 €
Type : Bronze au cheval et à la tête aux cheveux calamistrés
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 2 h.
Weight : 2,27 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bronze sur un flan un peu court et ovale mais avec de beaux reliefs. Patine typique de ces monnaies, sombre et poreuse
Catalogue references :
LT.8424 - DT.356
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection régionale D. B.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à droite, les cheveux calamistrés ; la tête est entourée de chevrons et d'annelets.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite, l’encolure perlée, entouré de globules et d'annelets centrés ; au-dessus, oiseau posé sur la croupe, tourné à droite.
Commentary
Au revers, l’oiseau est particulièrement net au-dessus du cheval.
On the reverse, the bird is particularly clear above the horse
On the reverse, the bird is particularly clear above the horse
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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