Live auction - bga_382111 - AMBIANI (Area of Amiens) Statère d'or biface au flan court
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| Estimate : | 3 000 € |
| Price : | 2 700 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 700 € |
| End of the sale : | 01 March 2016 15:39:54 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Statère d'or biface au flan court
Date: c. 80-50 AC.
Mint name / Town : Amiens (80)
Metal : gold
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 7,57 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan un peu court et ovale, avec une frappe centrée et assez vigoureuse au droit mais un peu molle au revers. De légères griffures sont à signaler en surface au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Tête stylisée à droite avec une couronne de laurier transversale.
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Cheval étiré galopant à droite, conduit par les restes d’un aurige destructuré au-dessus ; entre les jambes du cheval, un globule.
Commentary
Ce statère appartient à la deuxième phase du monnayage ambien ; les flans ont tendance à être plus étroit et à s’épaissir, mais les monnaies sont toujours bifaces, avec une tête stylisée au droit. Cet exemplaire est de joli style.
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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