bga_473838 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze “au triskèle et au canard”
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Price : 180.00 €
Type : Bronze “au triskèle et au canard”
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,64 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bronze sur un flan ovale, avec un droit presque complet mais de frappe molle. Revers de qualité hors du commun, mais patine poreuse
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection régionale D. B.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Restes de trois animaux, formant un triskèle ; deux des trois animaux affrontés ; une petite ancre dans le champ.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Restes d’un oiseau (ou cheval stylisé) à droite, le corps formé par un très gros globule orné d’une croisette.
Commentary
Ce bronze est très rare ; presque tous les exemplaires connus sont sur des petits flans courts et épais..
This bronze is very rare; almost all known examples are on small, short and thick blanks.
This bronze is very rare; almost all known examples are on small, short and thick blanks.
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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