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¼ Gold Stater
| Issuer | Treveri (Gallia Belgica) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 100 BC |
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| Reference(s) | DT#127 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (200 BC - 100 BC) |
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The Treveri occupied the Moselle valley with enough political cohesion to maintain their own gold coinage well before Caesar's campaigns brought them into the historical record — they appear in his Gallic Wars as persistently difficult to subdue, requiring multiple Roman interventions between 54 and 53 BC. Their fractional gold issues were almost certainly used for elite transactions and warrior payments rather than everyday exchange, circulating within a gift economy where weight and tribal origin mattered more than any standardized equivalence.
DT 127 belongs to a stater series showing progressive abstraction from its Macedonian prototype over successive generations of die-cutting.