Item number: A217

Year: 60-25 BC

Material: Gold

Size: 14.6 x 12.9 x 1.3 mm

Weight: 1.4 g

Provenance: Künker 2022

This gold ¼ stater, weighing 1.4 g, was minted between 60 BC and 25 BC by the Gaulish Bellovaci tribe, located near Beauvais. The obverse features a singular eye accompanied by a rayed star, both enclosed within a beaded circle. The reverse depicts a horse running to the right, similarly adorned with a rayed star and enclosed within a beaded circle.

During the Gallic War, the Ambiani were not the sole tribe to mint coins; other tribes allied with the Romans also produced coinage to fund war expenses, known collectively as Eye Staters. Dr. John Sills, in his article “Reversal of fortune: eye staters of the Remi and Treveri,” categorizes Eye Staters into six types and groups them as part of a series known as Scheers series 30. These coins, ultimately inspired by the Philippus, begin with merely the remnants of Apollo’s head in a highly abstracted form. While Gallo-Belgic C coins focused on Apollo’s hair and wreath, these coins emphasize Apollo’s eye and wreath. The Bellovaci type appears to be inspired by the eye on Gallo-Belgic F, and possibly the star on Gallo-Belgic G.

The Bellovaci, a tribe from Belgic Gaul, occupied what is now the department of Oise. They neighbored the Parisii, the Veliocasses, the Caletes, the Ambiani, and the Suessions. Caesar regarded the Bellovaci as “the most valiant of all the Gauls.” Before the Gallic Wars, the Bellovaci had been allies of the Aedui. In 57 BC, they instigated an uprising of the Belgian tribes, providing a contingent of sixty thousand warriors to the coalition, but were defeated and took refuge in their oppidum of Bratuspantium. In 52 BC, they had pledged a contingent of ten thousand men for the relief army but later rescinded this pledge, asserting their intention to confront the Romans independently. Eventually, at the request of Commius, they contributed two thousand men to the coalition. The following year, in 51 BC, they led the Belgian tribes in one final revolt. Correos, a Bellovacan leader, orchestrated the rebellion to combat the Romans with the Atrebates, Ambiani, Aulerci Eburovices, Caletes, and Veliocasses. Alongside the Atrebate Commius, Correos confronted the Roman armies at the borders of the Bellovacan and Suessian territories. Correos’s death marked the definitive cessation of hostilities.

物件編號: A217

年代: 公元前 60-25年

材質: 黃金

尺寸: 14.6 x 12.9 x 1.3 mm

重量: 1.4 g

來源: 昆克 2022

這枚金質1/4斯塔特幣，重1.4克，由位於博韋附近的高盧貝洛瓦西(Gaulish Bellovaci)部落在公元前60年至25年間鑄造。正面特徵是一枚獨眼及帶放射線的星，兩者都被一個珠圈所包圍。反面描繪了一匹向右奔跑的馬，同樣裝飾有帶放射線的星並被珠圈包圍。

在高盧戰爭期間，安比安尼部落不是唯一鑄造硬幣的部落；其他與羅馬人結盟的部落也生產硬幣來資助戰爭開支，這些硬幣統稱為眼睛斯塔特幣。約翰·席爾斯博士(Dr. John Sills)在他的文章〈命運逆轉：雷米和特雷維利的眼睛銅板〉(Reversal of fortune: eye staters of the Remi and Treveri)中，將眼睛斯塔特幣分為六種類型，並將它們歸類為謝爾斯系列三十(Scheers series 30)的一部分。這些硬幣受到菲利普斯(Philippus)的啟發，起初僅是以極度抽象的形式呈現阿波羅的頭部細節。當加洛比利克C型(Gallo-Belgic C)硬幣聚焦於阿波羅的頭髮和花冠時，這些硬幣強調了阿波羅的眼睛和花冠。貝洛瓦西型似乎受到加洛比利克F型的眼睛並可能受到加洛比利克G型的星星的啟發。

貝洛瓦西部落是貝爾基高盧的一支，佔據了現今的瓦茲省。他們與巴黎西族、維利奧卡西族、凱爾特族、安比安尼族和蘇埃松族為鄰。凱撒認為貝洛瓦西是“所有高盧人中最勇敢的”。在高盧戰爭前，貝洛瓦西曾是埃杜伊人的盟友。公元前57年，他們發起了比利時部落的起義，為聯盟提供了六萬名戰士，但被擊敗並撤退到他們的城邦布拉圖斯潘提烏姆。公元前52年，他們承諾為救援軍提供一萬名士兵，但後來撤回了這一承諾，宣稱打算獨立對抗羅馬人。最終，在科米烏斯(Commius)的要求下，他們為聯盟貢獻了兩千名士兵。次年，公元前51年，他們領導比利時部落發起了最後一次叛亂。貝洛瓦西領袖科雷奧斯(Correos)與阿特雷巴特的科米烏斯一起，與羅馬軍隊在貝洛瓦西和蘇埃松領土邊界對抗。科雷奧斯的死標誌著敵對行動的最終停止。