bga_573052 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze composite au cheval
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Type : Bronze composite au cheval
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,33 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Revers d’une rare finesse ! Droit présentant une faiblesse de frappe. Jolie patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête désarticulée, imitée du statère à l’oeil des Suessions.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à gauche, trois globules entre les jambes et un petit sanglier au-dessus de la croupe.
Commentary
Ce bronze constitue la classe III aux croissants opposés de la série 53 “Types divers et composites”.
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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