bga_453123 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au cheval, BN 8430
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Type : Bronze au cheval, BN 8430
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,43 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan un peu court mais avec des types de droit et de revers complets. Épaisse patine sombre
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée à droite, le menton saillant.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à gauche, la queue triple ; entouré de volute et d'annelets.
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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