Live auction - bga_370146 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze à la tête de face
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | 360 € |
| Maximum bid : | 360 € |
| End of the sale : | 15 December 2015 14:58:44 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Bronze à la tête de face
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 2,20 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Joli bronze sur un flan court et épais, mais régulier, avec une belle patine verte. Frappe vigoureuse, surtout pour le revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Motif indéterminé en forme de corps humain sans tête vu de face, les membre se finissant en protomés de cheval.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Tête coupée et cornue de face, dans un torque à tampons.
Commentary
Ce type de représentation de face est assez rare dans le monnayage gaulois. Cet exemplaire si particulier correspond au DT. 399 qui était aussi repris dans le Traité de S. Scheers ! La description du droit est soumise à discussion, car la tête de face correspond bien au revers !.
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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