Live auction - bga_854394 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Denier d'argent scyphate dit “à l'hippocampe”
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| Estimate : | 500 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 05 September 2023 15:29:24 |
Type : Denier d'argent scyphate dit “à l'hippocampe”
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,55 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Beau denier sur un flan très légèrement décentré au revers. Superbe droit richement détaillé. Une fine usure homogène. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée stylisée à droite.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite, la crinière perlée, la tête formée par un petit triangle fermé à l’extrémité globulée ; au-dessus, deux annelets pointés ; entre les pattes, un protomé d’hippocampe à droite ; devant le poitrail, une sorte de fine triskèle.
Commentary
Ce denier appartient à la classe F de la typologie d'Allen qu'il appelle "type scyphate de Picardie à l'animal dégénéré" ou à la classe 2 de S. Scheers, "les petites monnaies d'argent de Picardie”. Dans le nouveau classement de J.-P. Delestrée et M. Tache, ce type se retrouve dans la série 31 B, "suite tardive des monnaies lamellaires en argent dérivées du type de Pallas", classe 1 à l'hippocampe.
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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