Bronze

The Atuatuci were a Germanic people — likely descended from Cimbri and Teutones stragglers left behind after Noreia — who had settled in what is now southern Belgium by the time Caesar encountered them in 57 BC. He described their complete subjugation and the sale of the entire surviving population, some 53,000 people, into slavery after they violated a surrender agreement. Coinage attributable to them is accordingly rare; these bronzes represent a truncated monetary tradition cut off by Roman conquest rather than absorbed into it.