Featured Talk about a beautiful head of hair: The Coriosolites/Old Elvis was still a hunka hunka burning love

Like old Elvis (not that he ever got to be old. He was dead just three years older than I am now. I'm trying not to say, "fat" Elvis as body shaming is lame... but that's what most folks call him during the late stages) the subject of the portrait on my latest acquisition, from CNG, may be chubby. But man O man does he have one helluva head of hair!

GAUL, Northwest. Coriosolites. Circa 100-50 BC. BI Stater (19mm, 6.28 g, 6h). Celticized head right, hair in large spiral curls, S-like ear / Devolved charioteer-in-biga right; quadrilateral banner hanging from lash to right, [boar below]. Depeyrot, NC VIII, 186; D&T 2340. Brown surfaces, hard green encrustation. VF.



(Not too bad for a "hefty old" guy. Also, proof that El invented the world's first "sexual mixed martial arts move???)

However, unlike Elvis, we know next to nothing about the folks that made such beautiful and artistic coins.


Even Julius Caesar and Pliny don't agree on their name (Coriosolites vs Coriosvelites)!
And we don't even know what the name means!!! Guesses are things like, "those who watch over the troops" and "army for hire" (mercenaries). But again, just guesses.
Judging from the map I've discerned a few things:

1-They liked the color yellow,
B-favorite food was more than likely banana, peanut butter and bacon sandwiches

(An actual photograph that Caesar captured of one of the Gallic warriors while on campaign)

and 3- they probably died their naturally Brown hair black to make their steely blue eyes pop when they were on stage (though my coin features an Elvisolite with green eyes).

Here are a few more coins with hair that would cut glass:



Any corrections to my above stated facts will be dead on the toilet as my researching is impeccable. Don't get caught in that trap...


So please post any Coriosolites, Celtic or Gallic coins, great heads of hair, actual stories of these people or whatever makes out with your girlfriend and then passes out on your couch!

 

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Oops! And how could I possibly leave these heads of hair out?!


And everyone has a evil hair day now and again:

 

Ryro, This is an odd but interesting thread ! Pictured below is a stater from the Veneti tribe in my collection. Not only is the deity on the obverse (Ogmios) sporting an interesting head of hair but so is the man-headed horse on the reverse .

 

Haha! Thanks I had fun putting it together. That coin of yours is nothing short of dazzling! And you got young handsome Elv...I mean Ogmios.
I know so little about these folks and there isn't much on them that I could find...but you just taught me something about them that I didn't know! I had never heard of Ogmios (I assume it is the same deity that is on my coin, though not listed in my coin's description).
So, moderns got one more thing wrong. When are complaining to god we type OMG when we should be typing OGMios...it was a stretch, I know.
Lucian described an image of Ogmios that showed him as an old man with a blackened face, dressed as Hercules but hardly heroic in physique.
Here is the only image of him that I could find...though, he does have a heroic physique, making me think this may just be Herk:

 

So I live in Jackson Tennessee, about 80 miles East of Memphis. It's the hometown of Carl Perkins and is said to be, with some justification, the birthplace of Rockabilly music. Scotty Moore, Elvis’s 1950s guitar player, was born 20 miles away in Gadsden. Every senior citizen in town seems to have an Elvis story. My university provost, for example, went to hang out at Graceland when she was a teenager with a bunch of other girls. Elvis pretty much ignored her. The woman who ran our copying services told me a story of going to see one of the traveling music shows modeled on the Louisiana Hayride back in the mid-50s. All the teen girls were getting autographs of the country and rockabilly artists, and one poor neglected singer asked them, “Don't you want my autograph too?” So they humored him and asked him for his autograph. Of course, it turned out to be Elvis, just before he made it big. In Jackson there’s a museum dedicated to rockabilly music and it doubles as the little-known Rockabilly Hall of Fame. My favorite display consists of the actual defibrillators used, unsuccessfully, to revive Elvis. They are no longer on display. I guess somebody suggested that they might be in poor taste. I'm glad I got the photograph when I did.

 

Here are a few interesting heads of hair:

 

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Ryro, The image on your Coriosolite stater is most likely Ogmios too . The Veneti & Coriosolites both occupied areas of Brittany & our coins were struck in the same time range. The Veneti controlled most of the sea trade along the Atlantic coast until they were overpowered by Julius Caesar. The Veneti were also known as head-hunters , & some of their gold coins depict trophy heads attached to the head of Ogmios .

This tiny Veneti quarter stater shows trophy heads emanating from the head of Ogmios, 2nd century BC, 12 mm, 1.93 gm, 3 h. This little gem sold for $13,000 at auction !

 

A recent purchase

Armorican stater, 75-50 BC, SG110, Seaby-17