Live auction - bga_571572 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Denier d'argent scyphate dit “à l'hippocampe”
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| Estimate : | 800 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 10 March 2020 16:03:30 |
Type : Denier d'argent scyphate dit “à l'hippocampe”
Date: c. 60-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 1,01 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire parfaitement centré et complet des deux côtés. Joli revers fin et belle patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête casquée stylisée à droite, une mèche de cheveux dépassant du casque revient enroulée sur le cou.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval libre galopant à droite, la tête formée par un petit triangle ouvert à l'extrémité globulée ; au-dessus, une S inversée et pointée et un animal allongé à tête triangulaire ; au dessous, hippocampe à gauche.
Commentary
Poids léger. Ce denier appartient à la classe E de la typologie d'Allen qu'il appelle "type au serpent" ou à la classe 1b de S. Scheers, variété stylisée du type à l'hippocampe. Dans le Nouvel Atlas ce type se retrouve dans la série 31 A, type lamellaire " à la tête de Pallas" et appartient à la classe 1 à l'hippocampe.
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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