Regini & Atrebates Eppillus c. 25 BC-AD 1 Eppillus Calleva Daisy Gold Quarter Stater *Rare*

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Regini & Atrebates Eppillus c. 25 BC-AD 1 Eppillus Calleva Daisy Gold Quarter Stater Rare

Name: Regini &amp; Atrebates Eppillus c. 25 BC-AD 1 Eppillus Calleva Daisy Gold Quarter Stater *Rare*
SKU: IAC267
Price: 1500.00 GBP
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Code: IAC267

Regini & Atrebates

Eppillus c. 25 BC-AD 1 Eppillus Calleva Daisy Gold Quarter Stater

Rare

ABC 1148, 9mm, 1.22g

Obverse

CALLE (Calleva Atrebatum) inscription. Six-pointed star above and below.

Reverse

Dog or lion right. EPPI inscription above. Pellet daisy below.

Mint

CALLEV

Calleva Atrebatum, modern-day Silchester, United Kingdom

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Comments

Evans: XX.1 (1890, p. 521, pl. XX).

Van Arsdell Classification: Atrebatic G, Eppillus Calleva Types. Van Arsdell notes modern forgeries (VA 407 – 01 – F1).

Rudd (ABC) ‘Calleva Daisy’.

Sills: Calleva Plain (4 obverse, 3 reverse dies). Southern Coinage; Eppillus; Quarter Staters: Class 3b – Calleva Plain. 2 obverse dies are from Class 3a. The reverse is similar except without a ringed pellet below the inscription.

Sills DK 358 (BMC 991, 992, 994, 995): CALLE.

Sills has the Calleva quarters (this and ABC 1151), the Rex unit (ABC 1160) and the U Type minim (ABC 1169) as equivalents due to the mint name, six pellet rosette, lettering style and use of the title Rex, which nevertheless appears for the first time on British coinage and later copied by Verica. They may have been struck at a similar time to Crescent quarters (ABC 1157). They come at the end of the series following Pegasus (ABC 1154) and equivalents.

Sills chronology: Gallo-Belgic Ca – Insular Cf / Aa Westerham – British Ad – British Q and L – British Qa-b Derivatives – Commios – Tincomarus – Eppillus.

Provenance

This coin is from The London Collection of Ancient British Coins. For more information click here: The London Collection – Silbury Coins : Silbury Coins.

Italo Vecchi Ltd Auction 16, lot 10 (Oct 1999) VA407

This coin comes with a previous label.

Eppillus (20 BC – AD?)

The second Atrebatic ruler to proclaim ‘COM F’ on his coins, Eppillus’ issues can be divided into two broad categories – those produced at the tribal civitas of Calleva (the imaginatively named ‘Calleva types’), and those seemingly struck in Kent (the equally imaginative ‘Kentish types’). On the basis of this, it is highly probable that Eppillus held some kind of influence either over or in Kent – although whether this was economic, territorial or military in nature is uncertain. Coin evidence does a lot of the heavy lifting in informing about his rule, as he is otherwise completely unknown to the historical record. His status as a king, or at least his desire to see himself portrayed as one, is revealed by one of his silver unit types – where the inscription ‘REX CALLE’ prominently appears (ABC 1160/BMC 1016–60). Robert van Arsdell theorised that Eppillus’ disappearance from the record might have arisen as a consequence of Cunobelin’s rise to power, suggesting that he was killed when the Trinovantes and Catavellaunii directed their territorial ambitions southwards into Kent.

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