bga_473830 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Denier d'argent scyphate aux chevaux affrontés et aux annelets
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Price : 500.00 €
Type : Denier d'argent scyphate aux chevaux affrontés et aux annelets
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 0,66 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan très large et scyphate, fragile avec un léger manque périphérique. Agréable patine de médaillier
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection régionale D. B.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Deux chevaux affrontés ; un annelet pointé entre eux ; deux lances superposées et opposées en guise d'exergue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite, la crinière perlée et enroulée ; un annelet pointé entre les jambes et un autre au-dessus de la crinière.
Commentary
Ce denier s'insère dans la série 48 du Nouvel Atlas "aux chevaux affrontés" et correspond plus particulièrement au DT. 433. Le flan est si mince que les deux corps des chevaux du droit apparaissent en négatif de l’autre côté, nuisant à la lecture du type de revers.
This coin is part of series 48 of the New Atlas \\\"with facing horses\\\" and corresponds more particularly to DT. 433. The flan is so thin that the two bodies of the horses on the obverse appear in negative on the other side, hampering the reading of the reverse type.
This coin is part of series 48 of the New Atlas \\\"with facing horses\\\" and corresponds more particularly to DT. 433. The flan is so thin that the two bodies of the horses on the obverse appear in negative on the other side, hampering the reading of the reverse type.
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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