bga_529929 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Petit denier d'argent scyphate, aux chevaux
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Price : 1 800.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 1 800.00 €
Type : Petit denier d'argent scyphate, aux chevaux
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,99 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire d’une rare beauté au droit comme au revers. Magnifique représentation complexe. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Cheval à gauche, la tête retournée ; des annelets pointés dans le champ ; grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite, un aurige aviforme au-dessus du dos, un annelet perlé et pointé devant le poitrail et un gros globule entre les jambes ; grènetis.
Commentary
Ce petit denier avec un cheval au droit et un cheval au revers s’insère dans la série 48 (trimétallique) du type cheval / cheval ; il se rapproche du DT. 431 qui provient de La Chaussée-Tirancourt (Somme) mais le sens du cheval au droit est inversé.
This small denier with a horse on the obverse and a horse on the reverse is part of series 48 (trimetallic) of the horse / horse type; it is similar to DT. 431 which comes from La Chaussée-Tirancourt (Somme) but the direction of the horse on the obverse is reversed.
This small denier with a horse on the obverse and a horse on the reverse is part of series 48 (trimetallic) of the horse / horse type; it is similar to DT. 431 which comes from La Chaussée-Tirancourt (Somme) but the direction of the horse on the obverse is reversed.
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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