The Coriosolites, a Gaulish tribe occupying the Armorican peninsula in what is now Brittany, produced one of the most stylistically distinctive coinage traditions in the Celtic world. Their staters evolved through a recognizable sequence of classes — this Class II sitting mid-sequence — showing progressive stylistic abstraction that modern scholars have used to build relative chronologies for the entire Armorican series. The sequence was likely compressed into a relatively short production window, possibly accelerating under pressure from Caesar's Gallic campaigns, which reached Armorica decisively in 56 BC when Crassus subdued the region.
Billon content varies measurably across the class, suggesting the tribe was managing a depleting silver supply.
The Coriosolites, a Gaulish tribe occupying the Armorican peninsula in what is now Brittany, produced one of the most stylistically distinctive coinage traditions in the Celtic world. Their staters evolved through a recognizable sequence of classes — this Class II sitting mid-sequence — showing progressive stylistic abstraction that modern scholars have used to build relative chronologies for the entire Armorican series. The sequence was likely compressed into a relatively short production window, possibly accelerating under pressure from Caesar's Gallic campaigns, which reached Armorica decisively in 56 BC when Crassus subdued the region.
Billon content varies measurably across the class, suggesting the tribe was managing a depleting silver supply.