v15_1248 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze IMONO au cavalier
MONNAIES 15 (2002)
Starting price : 105.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 105.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Bronze IMONO au cavalier
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,27 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire décentré, à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES II, 21 juin 1997, n° 559
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Trois volutes en forme d'oiseaux concentriques ornées d'un besant.
Reverse
Reverse legend : IMO[NO], LES O POINTÉS.
Reverse description : Cavalier galopant à droite, stylisé, brandissant une épée ; le cheval est orné d’un annelet centré.
Commentary
Au droit, la représentation fait penser à un bouclier.
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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