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bga_575580 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze à la tête de face, BN. 8405

AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze à la tête de face, BN. 8405 XF
180.00 €(Approx. 196.20$ | 151.20£)
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Type : Bronze à la tête de face, BN. 8405
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14,5 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 2,20 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire à l’usure régulière ayant conservé une beau relief. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection C.N., acquis en 1997

Obverse


Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête humaine à gauche, la chevelure en arrière.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Tête casquée avec ses nattes (?) de face, des globules autour.

Commentary


Ce type de représentation de face est assez rare dans le monnayage gaulois. Ce bronze est très rare et se trouve rarement aussi beau.

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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