bga_867520 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval et à la croix tréflée, BN 8427
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Type : Bronze au cheval et à la croix tréflée, BN 8427
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,16 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan mince et voilé, centré. Beau revers. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée à gauche, torque au cou ; devant la face, trois globules.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre au galop à droite ; au-dessus, un annelet ; entre les pattes, une croix tréflée surmontée de trois annelets.
Commentary
Ce type était très rare en 1977 et le reste encore aujourd’hui.
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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