v15_1193 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Statère d'or biface
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 1 450.00 €
Estimate : 3 000.00 €
Realised price : 1 500.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 500.00 €
Starting price : 1 450.00 €
Estimate : 3 000.00 €
Realised price : 1 500.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 500.00 €
Type : Statère d'or biface
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 7,54 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et complet des deux côtés. Au droit, le coin semble rouillé. Très joli revers.
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à droite avec une couronne de laurier transversale.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval étiré galopant à droite, conduit par les restes d’un aurige déstructuré au-dessus ; entre les jambes du cheval, une rosace.
Commentary
Semble de mêmes coins que l’exemplaire reproduit dans le Traité (pl. 4, n° 84 = Bourgey, 3 décembre 1909, n° 258). Semble le second exemplaire connu.
Appears to have the same corners as the example reproduced in the Treatise (pl. 4, no. 84 = Bourgey, December 3, 1909, no. 258). Appears to be the second known example
Appears to have the same corners as the example reproduced in the Treatise (pl. 4, no. 84 = Bourgey, December 3, 1909, no. 258). Appears to be the second known example
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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