bga_1093976 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze IMONIO au cavalier et aux volutes
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Bronze IMONIO au cavalier et aux volutes
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Weight : 2,62 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Jolie monnaie sur un flan ovale recouvert d’une belle patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Trois volutes en forme d'oiseaux concentriques ornées d'un besant.
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMONIO, LES O POINTÉS.
Reverse description : Cavalier galopant à droite, stylisé, brandissant une épée ; le cheval est orné d’un annelet centré ; un annelet centré sous le ventre du cheval.
Commentary
Les bronzes avec ce type de revers épigraphe IMONIO ont deux types de droit ; le premier reprends exactement la tête du denier celtibère et le second est plus stylisé avec des volutes parfois interprétées comme étant des oiseaux.
Bronzes with this type of IMONIO epigraph reverse have two types of rights; the first takes exactly the head of the Celtiberian denarius and the second is more stylized with scrolls sometimes interpreted as being birds
Bronzes with this type of IMONIO epigraph reverse have two types of rights; the first takes exactly the head of the Celtiberian denarius and the second is more stylized with scrolls sometimes interpreted as being birds
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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