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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8282788, member: 26430&quot;]I&#039;ve been answering often lately, so I wanted to skip one, but I can&#039;t let that prompt get 12-hour&#039;d! (An interesting one, [USER=102653]@TuckHard[/USER] !)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one that&#039;s been a matter of some dispute since I think as early as Eckhel. Even for those who are certain the monogram types are of Brutus (for the monogram staters I think the metallurgy is pretty strong evidence), they still really don&#039;t know for sure who &quot;Koson&quot; would be (there are hypotheses).</p><p><br /></p><p>Others believe they are nothing more than imitations of Roman Republican coins by the Getae or other Dacian or Danubian tribes. (Perhaps so for the non-monogram AV Staters.) Or, just... who knows? Some people who hoarded gold for the mountain god?</p><p><br /></p><p>Some people don&#039;t even believe the <i>silver </i>ones are ancient at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>But RPC has now finally accepted them, and I think the die and metallurgy evidence is strong. They&#039;re just all from one find c. 2003, maybe 85 of them. And were all struck with reverse die “Type b” (Hourmouziadis 2010), previously known only from a single example in the AV Stater (Dima <i>et al. </i>2007, no. 145, as illustrated in Hourmouziadis 2010: P. 294, Fig 3a):</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><font face="Georgia">All of them were struck with the same pair of dies. These dies are A / b. Such a combination was found only in a single specimen of the Târsa (1996) treasure (Dima <i>et al. </i>2007 [<i>sic (?)</i>, <i>Dima et al. 2004?</i>]). This would indicate that the reverse die was primarily used for minting silver drachmae.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>It would be hard to fake 85 coins based on a die known only from a single specimen (held by a museum)!</p><p><br /></p><p>The Brutus-Koson-Skythia-Dacia-Olbia-or-are-they-all-modern-forgeries AR Drachm:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1463004[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And the AV Stater (monogram type) that goes with it</p><p>[ATTACH]1463003[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple others in thumbnail (Olbia vs. Parion Drachm; Eythrae vs. Herakleia Hekte)</p><p>[ATTACH]1463005[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1463006[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><b>NEXT: A coin that appeared in multiple metals</b> (or at least series of very similar coins, AE, AR, AV, BI, EL, PB, and/or Other, any two or more; you don&#039;t have to post both, but please tell, cuz I&#039;m curious about those!)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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