bga_210458 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Statère d'or uniface
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Price : 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 450.00 €
Type : Statère d'or uniface
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Weight : 6,16 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur flan un peu court et irrégulier. Revers avec une faiblesse de frappe sur l’arrière du cheval
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Lisse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval disloqué à droite, accosté d'annelets, de croissants et de globules.
Commentary
Bien qu’uniface ce statère est frappé avec un coin de droit caractéristique et facilement reconnaissable grâce aux motifs en bord de flan.
Although uniface, this stater is struck with a characteristic obverse die, easily recognizable thanks to the motifs on the edge of the flan.
Although uniface, this stater is struck with a characteristic obverse die, easily recognizable thanks to the motifs on the edge of the flan.
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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