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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 8152683, member: 83845"]Also I wanted to add that I read the metallurgical study again and the example that they show in the figure for the monogram Koson is of the complex type. That suggests that the simple and complex monogram coins are metallurgically related and it is only the no monogram coins that are the outlier.</p><p><br /></p><p>So what you ask? That means that the simple and complex monogram Kosons can’t be separated by “crude” and “fine” style and assumed to be from different sources. Coupled with the fact that they were found together in roughly equal proportions in the Tarsa hoard (see above) seems to indicate they are related but were struck at different mints or officinae.</p><p><br /></p><p>To keep it coin legal here is a commemorative of Trajan crossing the Danube into Dacia.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1422243[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 8152683, member: 83845"]Also I wanted to add that I read the metallurgical study again and the example that they show in the figure for the monogram Koson is of the complex type. That suggests that the simple and complex monogram coins are metallurgically related and it is only the no monogram coins that are the outlier. So what you ask? That means that the simple and complex monogram Kosons can’t be separated by “crude” and “fine” style and assumed to be from different sources. Coupled with the fact that they were found together in roughly equal proportions in the Tarsa hoard (see above) seems to indicate they are related but were struck at different mints or officinae. To keep it coin legal here is a commemorative of Trajan crossing the Danube into Dacia. [ATTACH=full]1422243[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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