v20_0260 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze VOCIICA
MONNAIES 20 (2004)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze VOCIICA
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 4 h.
Weight : 2,29 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze frappé sur un flan assez large et scyphate. Patine verte, sauf sur les reliefs de couleur marron. Frappe légèrement décentrée au revers
Catalogue references :
LT.cf. 8484 var. - BN.8493-8494 - RIG.313 - Sch/D.291 - Sch/L. - BMCC.17 - Sch/GB.389-390 série 80 - DT.411 série 48
Obverse
Obverse legend : VOCIICA.
Obverse description : Cheval à gauche, une jambe avant levée ; légende devant. Deux globules autour du bout de la queue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à gauche, un bucrane et un annelet au-dessus. Grènetis.
Commentary
Bien qu’en bord de flan, la légende VOCIICA est complète. L’un des deux I semble cependant se confondre avec le bout de l’une des deux jambes avant du cheval.
Although on the edge of the flank, the legend VOCIICA is complete. One of the two I's, however, seems to merge with the tip of one of the horse's two front legs.
Although on the edge of the flank, the legend VOCIICA is complete. One of the two I's, however, seems to merge with the tip of one of the horse's two front legs.
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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