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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 8131512, member: 57495&quot;]Wow, Sev, that&#039;s an interesting one that I wasn&#039;t aware of.&nbsp; Rooting about for a reference to these online, I stumbled onto this website, which seems to be dedicated to the Koson issues:</p><p><a href="http://www.koson.org/en/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.koson.org/en/" rel="nofollow">http://www.koson.org/en/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t look through all of it, but of this silver drachm it has this quote:</p><p><br /></p><p>”The great surprise is the recent discovery, on the antique market, of other silver coins, imitated after the drachams Macedonia Prima type, having on reverse the club of Hercules, and on both sides the legend KOΣΩN / ΔΡOYEIΣ. The name of the issuer has been written to indicate the father: “Coson, of Droueis” (the name of the father without the genitive form). From this might come the conclusion that this dynast was not the direct descendent from king Burebista.”</p><p>- Constantin C. Petolescu,<i> Dacia. Un mileniu de istorie, 2nd</i> edition, Bucharest, pp. 99-100.</p><p><br /></p><p>Elsewhere, there is <a href="https://www.academia.edu/38326269/TaorminaKosons.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/38326269/TaorminaKosons.pdf" rel="nofollow">this study</a> of Koson issues, which hypothesizes that Koson and Droueis were separate &quot;beneficiaries&quot; of this particular type, with Droueis being &quot;probably&quot; a Thracian king, who eventually &quot;disappeared at least from the agreement, possibly even physically.&quot; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add:</p><p>There also seems to be a talk given by Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert, <b>The Drachms of King Koson of Thrace and the Meaning of the Word ΔΡΟΥΕΙΣ</b>, where he apparently &quot;argues that the word can be understood as the Celtic title &quot;druid.&quot; and show many examples of coinage to support his theory.&quot; I haven&#039;t found a working link to the talk unfortunately.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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