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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8131595, member: 84905&quot;]Great writeup and very interesting thread!</p><p><br /></p><p>Just my two cents:</p><ul> <li>I doubt the theory that Brutus had coins made in order to pay Dacian warriors, who by and large came from a non-monetary society. Once they had received the coins, they would have turned them into jewellery or other decorations with remaining pieces scattered all over the place.</li> <li>I suspect that these coins were made in one or more of the great trading centres (Olbia, Appolonia) at the Black Sea, who based the design of their gold staters on Roman denari and Greek statere.</li> <li>I think it is possible that the word KOSON had no particular meaning. It may have been copied mechanistically from Greek coins, just as CONOB would be copied meaninglessly in late antiquity.</li> <li>I like the suggestion that the monogram stands for Burebista, who had conquered Greek cities on the Black Sea, but I guess this will remain an open question.</li> <li>I think it is likely that these cities made the coins to pay tribute to the Dacian king. Hence, they remained in the royal treasury, which would explain why these coins seem to come from only a few (or one?) large hoards.</li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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