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| | 'Treasure of Ambiorix' |
 | | The treasure contained coins from several ancient Belgian tribes: seventy-four were minted by the Eburones, seventeen by the Nervians, one by the Trevirans, one by the Bellovaci, and one by an unidentified ethnic group. |
 | | It is very tempting to connect this treasure with the insurrection of Ambiorix, the Eburonian leader who revolted against the Romans in the winter of 54/53 BCE, destroyed one of the legions of the Roman general Caius Julius Caesar, and witnessed how his tribe was massacred by his enemies. |
 | | The seventy-four Eburonian were minted with the same die; the seventeen Nervian coins were also made with one die. |
| www.livius.org /am-ao/ambiorix/ambiorix_treasury.html (328 words) |
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