E-auction 61-28212 - bga_132671 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze “aux abeilles” et au lion
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| Estimate : | 160 € |
| Price : | 80 € |
| Maximum bid : | 81 € |
| End of the sale : | 16 June 2014 15:05:00 |
| bidders : | 10 bidders |
Type : Bronze “aux abeilles” et au lion
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,29 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan avec une usure importante au droit, mais complet, légèrement décentré au revers avec la légende absente, de joli style et de haut relief. Patine verte superficielle
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Grand buste à gauche avec un torque au cou ; devant la face, un astre surmonté d’un croissant.
Reverse
Reverse legend : TRACES DE LÉGENDE À L'EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Lion passant à gauche, entouré d’un cordon formé d’une ligne brisée (zigzag) donnant l’impression d’une légende ; au-dessus, un cordon serpentiforme.
Commentary
Était complètement inédit et mal répertorié avant la publication de L.-P. Delestrée en 1990. Ce type est copié pour le droit sur le bronze “aux abeilles” (cf. MONNAIES XV, n° 1253) et pour le revers, des drachmes d’argent de Marseille (cf. Br/L. série 9, 66/1-4 = BN 1166). Sur cet exemplaire, au-dessus du rinceau, on découvre un astre entre deux annelets pointés.
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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