v09_0849 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux sangliers affrontés
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 167.69 €
Estimate : 289.65 €
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Starting price : 167.69 €
Estimate : 289.65 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze aux sangliers affrontés
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Weight : 1,39 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique patine vert olive / Le revers est fruste
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Deux sangliers affrontés dos à dos, tournés à gauche ; à l'exergue, un annelet centré sous le sanglier de base.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite.
Commentary
Poids léger. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié. Manque aux principaux ouvrages consultés.
Lightweight. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from the main works consulted.
Lightweight. Appears to be completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from the main works consulted.
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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