bga_681871 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze au triskèle
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Type : Bronze au triskèle
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,18 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie bien centrée, avec un joli droit intéressant. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Triskèle formé de trois protomés de chevaux, ayant chacun une esse devant la bouche.
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.
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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