bga_307081 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Bronze VOCIICA
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Price : 150.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Bronze VOCIICA
Date: c. 60-40 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,42 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bronze frappé sur un flan assez large et irrégulier. Patine sombre et granuleuse, un peu hétérogène surtout au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VOCIICA.
Obverse description : Cheval à gauche, une jambe avant levée ; légende devant. Deux globules autour du bout de la queue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval à gauche, un bucrane et un annelet au-dessus ; grènetis.
Commentary
La légende VOCIICA se devine assez nettement au droit ; elle est rarement aussi claire !.
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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