bga_513738 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze composite au cheval
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Type : Bronze composite au cheval
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,84 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire pour ce type rare avec un joli droit et une magnifique patine verte
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête dégénérée, dérivant du statère belge, avec les lauriers et les deux croissants en guise de visage.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à gauche, un croissant entre les jambes et un annelet au-dessus de la croupe.
Commentary
Ce bronze constitue la var. 2 de la classe V “dérivée du statère à l'œil des Suessions.
Ce type est très rare, c’est la première fois que nous le proposons en si bel état !.
This bronze constitutes the var. 2 of class V “derived from the eye stater of Suessions. This type is very rare, this is the first time we have offered it in such beautiful condition!
Ce type est très rare, c’est la première fois que nous le proposons en si bel état !.
This bronze constitutes the var. 2 of class V “derived from the eye stater of Suessions. This type is very rare, this is the first time we have offered it in such beautiful condition!
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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