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.
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.