bga_359436 - MEDIOMATRICI (Area of Metz) Bronze AMBACTVS au bucrane et à l’aigle
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 180.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 180.00 €
Type : Bronze AMBACTVS au bucrane et à l’aigle
Date: c. 50-30 AC.
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,57 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et irrégulier, avec un droit presque complet. Revers décentré. Patine sombre et hétérogène
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection R. Chevallier (1922-2015)
Obverse
Obverse legend : AMBACTVS.
Obverse description : Bucrane de face, une étoile à cinq branches au-dessus et légende au-dessous, grènetis.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Aigle de face, les ailes éployées et la tête à gauche : couronne de feuillages autour.
Commentary
La légende AMBACTVS est entièrement lisible sur cet exemplaire.
The legend AMBACTVS is fully legible on this example
The legend AMBACTVS is fully legible on this example
Historical background
MEDIOMATRICI (Area of Metz)
(2nd - 1st century BC)
The Médiomatriques were a very powerful people of Belgian Gaul. They were strongly Romanized and owed their wealth to the salt trade. They were installed on the Moselle and controlled part of the Vosges and Alsace. They had for neighbors the Treveri, the Remi, the Lingones, the Leuci and the Sequani. They provided a contingent of five thousand men for the relief army intended to free Alesia. Their main oppidum was Divodurum (Metz). Caesar (BG. IV, 10; VII, 75).
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