E-auction 532-451519 - bga_552277 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze aux hippocampes adossés, BN 8526
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| Estimate : | 60 € |
| Price : | 15 € |
| Maximum bid : | 15 € |
| End of the sale : | 26 June 2023 14:07:40 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Bronze aux hippocampes adossés, BN 8526
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Weight : 2,42 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Usure très importante des deux côtés mais revers identifiable. Patine verte/marron
Catalogue references :
LT.8526 - DT.477 - ABT.p. 374 - Sch/SM.- - Sch/L.- - Sch/D.- - Sch/GB.476 série 122 - LPD.cf. p. 75, A
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant d’une collection spécialisée uniquement sur les monnaies ambiennes !
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête barbue à gauche, la bouche ouverte ; derrière, une S ; devant le visage, deux enroulements.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Deux “hippocampes” adossés, ou deux cols de chevaux à la base du corps anguipède.
Commentary
La taille de l’empreinte du coin de droit devait être nettement plus importante que celle des flans. Les monnaies de ces séries sont toujours incomplètes au droit.
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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