bga_402781 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Statère d'or uniface
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Price : 850.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 850.00 €
Type : Statère d'or uniface
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Weight : 6,14 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Statère avec un très beau revers et un droit intéressant. Métal agréable avec une patine comme nettoyée anciennement
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
Cet exemplaire d’un très beau style pourrait avoir été frappé outre Manche.
Le droit de cet exemplaire est intéressant, avec la trace du bord du flan.
This example of a very beautiful style could have been struck across the Channel. The obverse of this example is interesting, with the trace of the edge of the flan
Le droit de cet exemplaire est intéressant, avec la trace du bord du flan.
This example of a very beautiful style could have been struck across the Channel. The obverse of this example is interesting, with the trace of 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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