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Stater Class III
| Issuer | Coriosolites |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Reverse description | A disjointed and stylised horse prancing left, rendered in the highly abstract Celtic manner characteristic of Armorican billon staters. The horse's body is decomposed into a series of curved and angular forms, with the mane indicated by a row of pellets or striations. Beneath the horse, a charioteer or lash motif is suggested by schematic linear elements, and a boar or similar zoomorphic standard appears above or before the animal. Below the horse, a row of pellet or lenticular ornaments appears in the exergue, and the letters IOI or a similar abbreviated inscription may be discerned in the lower field, consistent with known examples of Coriosolites Class III staters. |
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| Reverse lettering | IOI |
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The Coriosolites occupied what is now the Côtes-d'Armor département of Brittany, and their coinage was produced in quantity — likely to pay warriors during the endemic inter-tribal conflicts of the late Gaulish period, possibly accelerating sharply in the years immediately before Caesar's campaigns brought Armorica into direct confrontation with Rome after 56 BC. Class III staters are distinguished from earlier issues by progressive stylistic abstraction and a measurable decline in silver content, the billon alloy reflecting either deliberate debasement or depleted access to Armorican silver sources.
Depeyrot's classification separates this class on die-linked grounds, and attribution between Class III and adjacent classes remains contested among specialists working from hoard evidence.