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Stater class IVb
| Issuer | Coriosolites |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Stylized disjointed horse prancing to the right in the fully abstract Celtic manner, with the body rendered as a series of curved lines and pellets. Above the horse, a large lyre-shaped or boar-head ornament is visible, a hallmark feature of Coriosolite coinage of this class. Below the horse, a charioteer figure is suggested by a row of parallel lines and a wheel or circular element, characteristic of the La Tène artistic tradition. The field is populated with floating curvilinear and pellet ornaments typical of late Armorican Celtic die engraving. No legend or inscription is present. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Coriosolites occupied the Armorican peninsula in what is now Brittany, and their coinage — including this class IVb stater — was likely struck in significant numbers in the decades before Julius Caesar's Gallic campaigns systematically dismantled tribal political structures across the region. The single largest known hoard of Coriosolite coins, recovered from Jersey in 1957, contained over 11,000 pieces and remains one of the most important Celtic coin deposits ever found in the British Isles.
Allen's die study identified the class IVb subdivision on the basis of specific stylistic progressions within the series, not a discrete mint event.