bga_553686 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et au sanglier, DT. 381
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Bronze au cheval et au sanglier, DT. 381
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,55 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze sur un flan court et irrégulier, mais complet. Patine vert clair, un peu granuleuse
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant d’une collection spécialisée uniquement sur les monnaies ambiennes !
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête laurée à droite, la chevelure divisée en grosses mèches.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite l’encolure perlée ; entre les jambes, un sanglier enseigne à droite ; un petit animal (?) au-dessus de la croupe du cheval.
Commentary
Ce type est rare. Dans son Traité, les deux seuls exemplaires repris par S. Scheers sont ceux de la BN. Aucune provenance n’avait été retenue. Celui du Nouvel Atlas est indiqué provenir de Bray-sur-Somme (Somme).
This guy is rare. In his Treatise, the only two examples taken up by S. Scheers are those of the BN. No provenance had been retained. That of the New Atlas is indicated to come from Bray-sur-Somme (Somme)
This guy is rare. In his Treatise, the only two examples taken up by S. Scheers are those of the BN. No provenance had been retained. That of the New Atlas 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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