Live auction - bga_548220 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Denier d'argent au cheval et à la rouelle
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| Estimate : | 600 € |
| Price : | 340 € |
| Maximum bid : | 350 € |
| End of the sale : | 04 June 2024 15:10:22 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Denier d'argent au cheval et à la rouelle
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14,50 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 1,73 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire d’une rare beauté, notamment au revers, de style fin et bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure en deux rangs de mèches enroulées ; l’oreille marquée et une volute serpentiforme devant le nez.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval bondissant à gauche ; une rouelle entre les jambes et un aurige sur la croupe.
Commentary
Cette monnaie n'est connue qu'à quelques exemplaires seulement ; cet exemplaire est particulièrement complet et homogène !
L’aurige accroupi rappelle la typologie de l’aurige présent sur certains hémistatères des Aulerques ou certains bronzes bellovaques...
Au droit, le serpent cornu devant le visage se retrouve sur d’autres monnaies ambiennes.
This coin is only known in a few copies; this example is particularly complete and homogeneous! The crouching charioteer recalls the typology of the charioteer present on certain Aulerci hemistatères or certain Bellovacan bronzes... On the right, the horned serpent in front of the face is found on other Ambian coins
L’aurige accroupi rappelle la typologie de l’aurige présent sur certains hémistatères des Aulerques ou certains bronzes bellovaques...
Au droit, le serpent cornu devant le visage se retrouve sur d’autres monnaies ambiennes.
This coin is only known in a few copies; this example is particularly complete and homogeneous! The crouching charioteer recalls the typology of the charioteer present on certain Aulerci hemistatères or certain Bellovacan bronzes... On the right, the horned serpent in front of the face is found on other Ambian coins
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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