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v25_0760 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Statère d'électrum uniface, type de Lumbres
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 480.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 480.00 €
Starting price : 480.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 480.00 €
Type : Statère d'électrum uniface, type de Lumbres
Date: c. 40-20 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Weight : 5,58 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan un peu court avec des éclatements de métal sur la tranche. Patine marron clair
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Lisse et légèrement bombé, avec un petit arc de cercle en périphérie.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval disloqué à droite, semblable à celui des statères unifaces des Ambiens ; un globule accosté d’une esse sous le cheval ; ligne d'exergue très légèrement ondulée.
Commentary
A sa couleur, cette monnaie semble être d’un alliage à forte proportion de cuivre. S’il s’agit d’une monnaie ambienne, elle est très tardive ; elle peut avoir été frappée en Gaule continentale, mais peut-être aussi sur les côtes anglaises.
From its color, this coin appears to be made of an alloy with a high proportion of copper. If it is an Ambian coin, it is very late; it may have been minted in continental Gaul, but perhaps also on the English coast.
From its color, this coin appears to be made of an alloy with a high proportion of copper. If it is an Ambian coin, it is very late; it may have been minted in continental Gaul, but perhaps also on the English coast.
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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