bga_241846 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze VACIICO, au sanglier et au cavalier
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Price : 100.00 €
Type : Bronze VACIICO, au sanglier et au cavalier
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 2,25 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, mais un peu irrégulier. Le droit est complet et le revers très légèrement décentré. Patine vert foncé et granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection P. N. M. C.
Obverse
Obverse legend : VACIICO.
Obverse description : Sanglier à droite ; la légende sous les pattes et un globule sous la queue.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cavalier à gauche ; des globuleset des annelets pointés dans le champ.
Commentary
Rare exemplaire avec la légende VACIICO complètement lisible.
Rare example with the legend VACIICO completely legible
Rare example with the legend VACIICO completely legible
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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