bga_646916 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Denier d'argent au cheval et à la rouelle
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Type : Denier d'argent au cheval et à la rouelle
Date: Ier siècle avant J.-C.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,39 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’aspect poreux. Frappe bien centré au droit. Patine tachée
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête à gauche, la chevelure en deux rangs de mèches enroulées ; l’oreille marquée et une volute serpentiforme devant le nez.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval bondissant à gauche ; une rouelle entre les jambes et un aurige sur la croupe.
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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