v15_1252 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze “aux abeilles”
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
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Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze “aux abeilles”
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,76 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de haut relief avec une patine verte, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche avec un collier ; devant la face, deux cercles centrés avec queue triple ; décor sous le buste avec un bucrane.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à gauche surmonté d'un aurige tenant les rênes ; un annelet entre les jambes du cheval.
Commentary
Semble de mêmes coins que les exemplaires du musée de Rouen (n°607), que celui décrit dans le “Nouvel atlas” (DT. 352) et que celui de MONNAIES XV, n° 1251.
Appears to be the same coins as the examples in the Rouen museum (no. 607), as the one described in the “New Atlas” (DT. 352) and as the one in MONNAIES XV, no. 1251
Appears to be the same coins as the examples in the Rouen museum (no. 607), as the one described in the “New Atlas” (DT. 352) and as the one in MONNAIES XV, no. 1251
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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