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Stater Class Vb/VI
| Issuer | Coriosolites |
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| Year | 80 BC - 50 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Disjointed horse figure moving to the right in the highly abstracted Celtic manner derived ultimately from a Greek prototype. The horse's body is rendered as a series of disconnected curvilinear elements, with a prominent rounded torso, a lash-like tail, and splayed limbs reduced to stylized linear strokes. A charioteer or driver figure appears above, fragmented into geometric and scroll forms. Annulet-and-pellet symbols and additional curvilinear ornaments fill the field above and below the horse, including a prominent wheel or rosette motif beneath the animal. An arc of triangular or lunate elements borders the lower portion of the design, characteristic of Coriosolitan coinage of Class Vb/VI. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Coriosolites occupied the territory around modern-day Côtes-d'Armor in Armorica, and their coinage is among the most systematically studied of all Gaulish silver series. Rybot's classification — later refined by Gruel and Morin — divided Coriosolitic staters into classes based on stylistic degeneration from earlier, more naturalistic prototypes, placing Class Vb and VI at a late stage in that sequence.
These coins were almost certainly struck in the years immediately preceding Caesar's Gallic campaigns, and a significant hoard — the massive Le Câtillon deposit on Jersey, containing tens of thousands of Armorican coins — suggests emergency concealment around the time of the Roman conquest of the region circa 56 BC.