v25_0756 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Statère d'or uniface
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €
Type : Statère d'or uniface
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Weight : 6,31 g.
Coments on the condition:
Statère frappé sur un flan régulier avec deux légers éclatements de frappe sur la tranche. Revers d’une frappe vigoureuse, avec un beau brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :
LT.8710 var. - BN.- - ABT.- - Sch/L.968 var. - Sch/SM.586 var. - Sch/D.- - Sch/GB.- série 24 - DT.- série 40 - Z.289
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Restes de tête humaine (?), sous forme d’une masse ovale et convexe, pratiquement lisse.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval disloqué à droite, accosté d'annelets, de croissants et de globules.
Commentary
Ce statère ne devrait pas être classé dans les séries unifaces. On distingue nettement deux masses, parfois interprétées comme des restes de représentation humaine. Même si l’analogie est abusive, l’aspect du droit n’est pas sans rappeler certaines monnaies tarusates.
This stater should not be classified in the uniface series. Two maces are clearly distinguishable, sometimes interpreted as remains of human representation. Even if the analogy is abusive, the appearance of the obverse is reminiscent of certain Tarusate coins.
This stater should not be classified in the uniface series. Two maces are clearly distinguishable, sometimes interpreted as remains of human representation. Even if the analogy is abusive, the appearance of the obverse is reminiscent of certain Tarusate coins.
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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