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bga_680001 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval

AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval VF
70.00 €(Approx. 76.30$ | 58.80£)
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Type : Bronze au cheval
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,56 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Usure importante mais beau revers. Patine marron
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à droite, le menton en galoche ; une série d'arc de cercles et de globules devant le visage, alignés de façon concentrique au grènetis.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à gauche, la crinière perlée ; une esse et un annelet pointé au-dessus du dos, un annelet devant la tête et un autre symbole entre les jambes.

Commentary


Ce bronze est très rare.
Le centrage permet une bonne lecture du type.

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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