The Coronet was introduced in 1958 as a single pickup entry level version of the Crestwood model.  The pickup was an Epiphone New York unit for the first year of production but in 1959 this was changed to a P-90 pickup.

The Coronet design was changed in 1963 with the introduction of an asymmetrical body, 6 in a row batwing headstock, covered p-90 pickup.

The original Coronet had a Smooth, angled wrap-around bridge until 1961 when a compensated straight unit was introduced. From 1962 to 1966 a Maestro vibrato was optinal.

The Epiphone Coronet was introduced by Epiphone in 1959, two years after Gibson aquired the brand. Costing around $120 it was designed as a reliable entry level guitar. The Coronet was discontinued in the 1970s when production of Epiphone guitars was moved overseas.

The limited production run of USA made Epiphone Coronet of the early 1990s had a single coil in the neck position and a humbucker in the bridge position, with a pull-out tone knob to tap the humbucker and a two-octave rosewood fingerboard with rectangular block markers and a reverse Explorer-style headstock. These USA Coronet guitars had the option of gold hardware with stop tailpiece or black hardware with licensed Floyd Rose locking tremolo.

EPIPHONE made the CORONET between 1939 and 1949. This is a different model to the later solidbody 1958 Epiphone Coronet.