bga_182642 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux sangliers affrontés
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Price : 180.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 180.00 €
Type : Bronze aux sangliers affrontés
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,65 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze bien frappé sur un flan large. Droit un peu mou mais revers très net. Agréable patine vert sombre
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Deux sangliers affrontés dos à dos ; au milieu, trois annelets ; à gauche un bucrane et à droite un croissant.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite ; entre les jambes, un bucrane ; au-dessus, un petit animal , peut-être un équidé ; devant la tête du cheval, un symbole couché en forme d’accolade.
Commentary
Au revers, le bucrane et le petit équidé retournant la tête à gauche au-dessus du cheval sont les caractéristiques de cette monnaie.
On the reverse, the bucranium and the small equine turning its head to the left above the horse are the characteristics of this coin
On the reverse, the bucranium and the small equine turning its head to the left above the horse are the characteristics of this coin
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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