Material: Gold Weight: 5.85 g Diameter: 17.00 mm Northeast Gaul, the Ambiani AV Stater. Gallic War uniface type. Circa 56-55 BC. Obv: Plain Rev: Devolved horse to right; pellet triad and 'charioteer's arms' above, crescent and pellet flanked by S to left and right below, exergual line with crescents and pellets below. D&T 242 var. **beautiful ancient patina**. This stater were issued by the coalition of Gallic tribes to fund the war against Julius Caesar in Gaul. The Ambiani themselves, to whom these issues are attributed, occupied the Somme valley area and were said to have fielded ten thousand warriors against Caesar. Their chief town Samarobriva, afterwards called Ambiani and Civitas Ambianensium, is thought to have been on the site of modern-day Amiens. **Shipping only into European Eunion**