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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tejas, post: 8141467, member: 84905&quot;]On the word KOSON the author <a href="https://www.academia.edu/26853223/%CE%9A%CE%9F%CE%A3%CE%A9%CE%9D_%CE%94%CE%A1%CE%9F%CE%A5%CE%95%CE%99%CE%A3_in_H_Schwarzer_and_H_H_Nieswandt_eds_Man_kann_es_sich_nicht_pr%C3%A4chtig_genug_vorstellen_Festschrift_f%C3%BCr_Dieter_Salzmann_zum_65_Geburtstag_I_M%C3%BCnster_2016_pp_87_102" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/26853223/%CE%9A%CE%9F%CE%A3%CE%A9%CE%9D_%CE%94%CE%A1%CE%9F%CE%A5%CE%95%CE%99%CE%A3_in_H_Schwarzer_and_H_H_Nieswandt_eds_Man_kann_es_sich_nicht_pr%C3%A4chtig_genug_vorstellen_Festschrift_f%C3%BCr_Dieter_Salzmann_zum_65_Geburtstag_I_M%C3%BCnster_2016_pp_87_102" rel="nofollow">Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert</a> seems to have no doubt that it is a personal name. Referencing others authors, Fischer-Bossert writes that this personal name is attested outside Greece in Tanais and Pantikapaion, but also in Greece as early as the 4th century BC (p. 94). The author argues that the name is in the nominative case, which he says is in keeping with Roman and Greek traditions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since he discusses not the gold staters, but the drachms, he considers the full legend &quot;KOSON DROUEIS&quot;, which he eventually resolves as something like king/high priest/leader KOSON.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find the idea, proposed by <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/severus-alexander.84744/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/members/severus-alexander.84744/">@Severus Alexander</a> above, that KOSON is a toponym in the dative case very intriguing. Since the whole coin issue is highly imitative, I suppose to support this idea one would need to 1) show that toponyms in dative case appear on Greek and/or Roman coins and 2) connect this toponymic interpretation with the legend KOSON DROUEIS.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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