E-auction 438-349494 - bga_688371 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au swastika
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| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 21 € |
| Maximum bid : | 21 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 September 2021 14:06:00 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Bronze au swastika
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 13 mm
Weight : 1,22 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Usure importante mais bel exemplaire inhabituel. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant d’une collection spécialisée uniquement sur les monnaies ambiennes !
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Quatre serpents ou encolures de chevaux anguipèdes, tirant la langue autour d'un annelet centré, formant un swastika dextrogyre.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval passant à droite, à la fine crinière perlée ; au-dessus, un triskèle partant de l’encolure ; entre les jambes un annelet centré ; deux autres annelets, accostant les antérieurs.
Commentary
La swastika au droit est traité de manière très inhabituelle avec un point central et des motifs répartis autour.
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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