bga_867455 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Denier d'argent scyphate aux chevaux affrontés
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Type : Denier d'argent scyphate aux chevaux affrontés
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 10 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 0,34 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Flan très court et centré. Usure importante mais type bien identifiable. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Deux chevaux affrontés ; un annelet pointé entre eux ; deux lances superposées et opposées en guise d'exergue.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite, la crinière perlée et enroulée ; un serpent bicéphale au-dessus.
Commentary
Ce denier s'insère dans la série 48 du Nouvel Atlas, avec ceux "aux chevaux affrontés" n° 433-435.
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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