v09_0852 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au sanglier
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
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Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze au sanglier
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,65 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur petit flan, mais parfaitement centré au droit et au revers. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Cheval galopant à droite, la crinière enroulée, la queue relevée entouré d'annelets et de globules.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Sanglier enseigne à droite, accosté d'annelets centrés.
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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