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v15_1207 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux chevaux affrontés

AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux chevaux affrontés XF
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 165.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 165.00 €
Type : Bronze aux chevaux affrontés
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,66 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large pour ce type où le troisième animal est bien visible sous les deux chevaux. Très belle patine vert olive foncé

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Deux chevaux affrontés, accostés d'annelets ; cerf couché au-dessous.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à gauche, surmonté d'une tête humaine de face ; devant, un poulain entre les pattes, un annelet double.

Commentary


L.-P. Delestrée identifie le troisième animal comme un cerf “dont la ramure de profil montre cinq cors bien distincts”. Au revers, il semblerait que le personnage a deux longues nattes et tire la langue.

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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