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Bronze with horse and head with calamistred hair
| Issuer | Ambiani |
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| Year | 60 BC - 40 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Stylized head facing right with long braided hair dressed in the calamistred fashion, bound by a fillet or headband. The hair is rendered in elongated, sinuous strands characteristic of late Gaulish artistic convention. The field surrounding the head is populated with S-shaped motifs and pointed annulets, filling the space in typical La Tène decorative style. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Ambiani occupied the Somme basin in what is now Picardy, and by the mid-first century BC were caught between Caesar's advancing legions and the fractious politics of the Belgic coalition. Their bronze coinage is thought to have circulated primarily as a local transactional currency during precisely the decades when Roman military pressure was dismantling the economic independence of the northern Gallic tribes. The DT#356 reference places this piece within a well-documented typological sequence, though die linkage studies on Ambiani bronzes remain less developed than for their gold staters.