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            [Image]              DACIAN DYNASTS: Coson. (Mid-first century BC). AV stater.
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           ID, etc.)             DACIAN DYNASTS. Coson (mid-first century BC). AV stater
                                 (8.64 gm). Sarmizegetusa, 43 BC. Eagle with spread wings
                                 standing left on scepter, holding wreath in talon / ?????,
      Mail Bid Home Page         Roman consul walking left between two lectors. RPC 1701. SNG
                                 Oxford 3780–3782. HN p. 289. M. Bahrfeldt, “Über die
                                 Goldmünzen des Dakerkönigs ?????,” Berliner Münzblätter
                                 1912, pp. 725–729. J. Winkler, “Consideratii despre moneda
                                 ‘Koson’,” Études et Recherches d’Histoire Ancienne 23/2
                                 (1972), pp. 175f., 1 and 3–5, fig. 1. Good extremely fine

                                 Ex F. Martin Post Collection.

                                 Gold staters of Coson have been represented in several
                                 hoards, all localized in western Romania, in the immediate
                                 neighborhood of ancient Sarmizegetusa. These findspots do
                                 not support the reading of the monogram as a mintmark of
                                 Olbia, as proposed by Head and Bahrfeldt and tentatively
                                 endorsed in RPC. Winkler’s study of the technical features
                                 shows not only that the emission was the product of a local
                                 mint, but also that the side with the inscription,
                                 traditionally described as the obverse, is in fact the
                                 reverse. The design of the reverse is manifestly inspired by
                                 the denarius issue of Brutus in 54 BC. The obverse type, an
                                 eagle with a wreath in its claw, may symbolize the
                                 anti-monarchical struggle of the tyrannicides, or perhaps
                                 the royal status of Coson himself. Apparently this coinage
                                 was struck during the period when Brutus was raising troops
                                 in northern Greece in preparation for the final
                                 confrontation with Antony and Octavian, not by Brutus
                                 himself but by an allied Dacian king from the lower Danube
                                 region.

                                 Estimated Value: $ 750

 ... sold for high bid of $650 [ $747.5, or approx 583.05 EUR, 388.7 GBP ] including the 15% buyers fee. 


From the Freeman & Sear Mail Bid Sale 13, Closed August 25th, 2006.

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