bga_465758 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au sanglier, VACIICO
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Type : Bronze au sanglier, VACIICO
Date: c. 60-50 AC
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,16 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze sur un flan un peu court et scyphate. Droit complet mais revers un peu décentré. patine hétérogène
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VACIICO.
Obverse description : Sanglier enseigne à droite ; S pointé sous le poitrail.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cavalier passant à gauche ; dans le champ, annelets et globules.
Commentary
La légende VACIICO n’est pas visible au droit, mais elle peut se deviner.
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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