bga_383160 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval, “type des dépôts d’Amiens”
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Bronze au cheval, “type des dépôts d’Amiens”
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 2,67 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze bien identifiable avec des types centrés et bien venus, mais avec une patine hétérogène
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Cheval immobile à gauche ; de chaque côté, des annelets pointés.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à gauche, la crinière flottante ; de chaque côté, du cheval, un globule.
Commentary
Ce type de bronze est finalement plus rare qu’il n’y paraît ; ce n’est que le cinquième que nous proposons (MONNAIES XV, n° 1226 et 1227, CELTIC I bga_230379 et CELTIC VI bga_241412).
This type of bronze is ultimately rarer than it appears; it is only the fifth that we are offering (COINS XV, nos. 1226 and 1227, CELTIC I bga_230379 and CELTIC VI bga_241412)
This type of bronze is ultimately rarer than it appears; it is only the fifth that we are offering (COINS XV, nos. 1226 and 1227, CELTIC I bga_230379 and CELTIC VI bga_241412)
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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