bga_241410 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Quart uniface, DT. 408
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Price : 80.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 80.00 €
Type : Quart uniface, DT. 408
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 10,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,23 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, avec un droit presque lisse et un revers assez confus. Patine brune
Predigree :
Cette monnaie provient de la collection P. Gendre
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Lisse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval très dégénéré à gauche.
Commentary
Cette petite monnaie est assez peu impressionnante ! C’est pourtant un très rare quart de statère des Ambiens (?), dont un très bel exemplaire est repris sous le DT. 407 pour la série 48 (trimétallique) au type Cheval / cheval.
Le DT. 407 (en bas or) et le DT. 408 (en argent) ainsi que notre exemplaire, sont d’un style très proche, surtout au revers !.
This small coin is rather unimpressive! It is, however, a very rare quarter stater of the Ambiens (?), of which a very fine example is included under DT. 407 for series 48 (trimetallic) with the Horse / horse type. DT. 407 (lower gold) and DT. 408 (in silver) as well as our example, are of a very similar style, especially on the reverse!
Le DT. 407 (en bas or) et le DT. 408 (en argent) ainsi que notre exemplaire, sont d’un style très proche, surtout au revers !.
This small coin is rather unimpressive! It is, however, a very rare quarter stater of the Ambiens (?), of which a very fine example is included under DT. 407 for series 48 (trimetallic) with the Horse / horse type. DT. 407 (lower gold) and DT. 408 (in silver) as well as our example, are of a very similar style, especially on the reverse!
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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