E-auction 30-10019 - bga_154542 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze “aux abeilles”
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 40 € |
| Maximum bid : | 41 € |
| End of the sale : | 11 November 2013 15:03:30 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Bronze “aux abeilles”
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 2,50 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large avec une très belle patine verte avec un droit très particulier
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Grand buste à gauche avec un torque au cou ; devant la face, deux cercles centrés avec queue triple.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval galopant à gauche surmonté d'un aurige tenant les rênes ; un animal serpentiforme entre les jambes du cheval.
Commentary
Le type du buste, avec la poitrine en avant, fait penser au denier rème ATEVLA/VLATOS (MONNAIES XV, n° 1280). Le buste n'est pas identique à celui du LA TOUR (LT. 8399-8397), mais le revers y correspond tout à fait, avec "l'animal serpentiforme" ou "la tête de capridé" qui y est bien similaire ; ce même revers manque d'ailleurs au Nouvel Atlas qui n'illustre que le DT. 352 pour ce type de bronze.
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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