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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 8131312, member: 84744&quot;]Surprise, surprise, another thought-provoking post from [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=56859]@TIF[/USER]&#039;s great idea for the monogram makes me wonder why nobody(?) has suggested it&#039;s BYP (BUR) for Burebista?&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t that make a lot of sense?&nbsp; He was alive until 44 BCE after all; and even if KOSON names a person it could be Burebista&#039;s son.&nbsp; (Perhaps Burebista and his son issued some restruck from <a href="https://www.academia.edu/39727143/About_the_Sarmizegetusa_Hoard_from_1998_and_the_Possible_Chronology_of_Burebista_s_Campaign_to_the_Black_Sea_Border" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/39727143/About_the_Sarmizegetusa_Hoard_from_1998_and_the_Possible_Chronology_of_Burebista_s_Campaign_to_the_Black_Sea_Border" rel="nofollow">the massive amounts of gold he took from the coastal Greek cities</a>, and then his son alone struck more from native Dacian gold, for example.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The other thing that&#039;s burning my butt is: what about <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6386981" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6386981" rel="nofollow">these things</a>, struck on the same weight standard, but (if struck in the mid 1st c. BCE) based on a type from a <i>hundred</i> years earlier?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1416400[/ATTACH]</p><p>The same KOΣΩΝ, but now with another word in the mix: ΔΡΟΥΕΙΣ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Some wild speculations:</p><p>- Could ΔΡΟΥΕΙΣ be an alternative form of &quot;BΡΟΥΕΙΣ&quot; and be the source of the monogram (now reading BPY)? (Seems doubtful. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie5" alt=":confused:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>- Could KOΣΩΝ be a place?&nbsp; I see that two of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_Fortresses_of_the_Orăștie_Mountains" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_Fortresses_of_the_Orăștie_Mountains" rel="nofollow">the cluster of Dacian fortresses</a> in the Orăștie Mountains (used by Burebista) have &quot;Costești&quot; in their names... perhaps derived from an old Dacian word?&nbsp; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_language#Place_names" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_language#Place_names" rel="nofollow">Ptolemy</a> mentions a place called &quot;Karsidava&quot; which isn&#039;t too different from &quot;Koson-dava&quot; (&quot;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dava_(Dacian)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dava_(Dacian)" rel="nofollow">dava</a>&quot; apparently means &quot;settlement&quot;, usually fortified).&nbsp; Maybe Kosondava was the fortress containing the mint?</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh - and great coin btw. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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