bga_553350 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au monstre marin
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Price : 80.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 80.00 €
Type : Bronze au monstre marin
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,92 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire bien centré à l’usure importante. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant d’une collection spécialisée uniquement sur les monnaies ambiennes !
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête et encolure de cheval anguipède à droite avec l’encolure perlée ; décor circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite surmonté d'un triskèle ; dans le champ, annelets centrés ; grènetis.
Commentary
L'interprétation de l'animal du droit et du petit animal secondaire du revers n'est pas très aisée, mais les propositions sont variées ; du canard au cheval sans membres....
The interpretation of the animal on the right and the small secondary animal on the reverse is not very easy, but the propositions are varied; from duck to limbless horse...
The interpretation of the animal on the right and the small secondary animal on the reverse is not very easy, but the propositions are varied; from duck to limbless 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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