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E-auction 597-562331 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze “aux abeilles”

AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze “aux abeilles” VF
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Type : Bronze “aux abeilles”
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,88 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Joli revers. Droit mou. Patine verte
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant d’une collection spécialisée uniquement sur les monnaies ambiennes !

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste à gauche avec un collier ; devant la face, deux cercles centrés avec queue ondulée.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à gauche surmonté d'un aurige tenant les rênes ; un animal serpentiforme entre les jambes du cheval.

Commentary


Ce bronze est exactement du même type que le bga_241398 de la collection Gendre ; le revers est typique de cette série, avec un animal serpentiforme entre les jambes du cheval.
Le bga_241398 présentait un droit exceptionnel avec un superbe motif complet et particulièrement bien venu devant le visage !
L’appellation imagée de bronze “aux abeilles” vient des deux cercles centrés avec queue triple, placés devant le visage qui faisaient parfois penser à ces insectes.

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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