v34_1289 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et au sanglier
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 340.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 340.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 605.00 €
Starting price : 340.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 340.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 605.00 €
Type : Bronze au cheval et au sanglier
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,78 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze complet, frappé sur un flan large. Très agréable patine verte, avec un aspect très légèrement granuleux en surface
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Cheval passant à droite, la crinière terminée en volute ; un bucrane devant le poitrail et un autre au-dessus de la croupe.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sanglier à droite ; un bucrane à l'envers entre les pattes ; une ligne ondulée derrière et au-dessus du sanglier ; un annelet pointé sous sa tête.
Commentary
L'exemplaire LT 8496 est celui qui a été repris par S. Scheers pour illustré son Traité, puis recolorisé pour le Nouvel Atlas (l’avers et le revers sont inversés et le cheval a été mal orienté). Ce type semble extrêmement rare et l'exemplaire proposé ici est dans un état de frappe et de conservation exceptionnel !.
Copy LT 8496 is the one that was used by S. Scheers to illustrate his Treatise, then recolored for the New Atlas (the obverse and reverse are reversed and the horse has been misoriented). This type seems extremely rare and the copy offered here is in an exceptional state of strike and preservation!
Copy LT 8496 is the one that was used by S. Scheers to illustrate his Treatise, then recolored for the New Atlas (the obverse and reverse are reversed and the horse has been misoriented). This type seems extremely rare and the copy offered here is in an exceptional state of strike and preservation!
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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