chiefdom · France and the Low Countries

Coriosolites

300 BCE – 56 BCE (approx.)

Armorican people of northern Brittany, best known today for huge hoards of their distinctive billon coins found in Jersey.

Origins

The Coriosolites lived in the modern Côtes-d'Armor, around the Rance estuary. Caesar names them among the Armorican peoples who submitted to Publius Crassus in 57 BCE.

Rule and society

They issued abundant coins of base silver with stylised heads and horses. Hoards buried around the time of the Roman conquest, above all the Grouville hoard found in Jersey in 2012 with around 70,000 coins, suggest wealth from cross-Channel trade or refugees fleeing Caesar.

Decline and legacy

After joining the Veneti and the Unelli in 56 BCE they were absorbed into Gallia Lugdunensis. Their Roman capital was Fanum Martis at Corseul, with a large temple of Mars, and the name survives in Corseul.

Few sources survive for this state; details are uncertain.

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APA
The Epoch Institute. (2026). Coriosolites. In The Epoch Institute States Register. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/coriosolites
MLA
“Coriosolites.” The Epoch Institute States Register, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/coriosolites. Accessed .
Chicago
The Epoch Institute. “Coriosolites.” The Epoch Institute States Register. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/coriosolites.
Harvard
The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Coriosolites’, The Epoch Institute States Register. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/state/coriosolites (Accessed: ).

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