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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;singig, post: 4573121, member: 93672&quot;]It will be interesting to know how was&nbsp; the market for these coins before 1993 ? ,&nbsp;&nbsp; asking the old collectors or searching in old auction catalogues....I will explain below way this specific year. Acsearch.info&nbsp; database goes back more than 19 years (only), the first Koson listed there was sold in march 2001.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some years ago (at a coin show) I had the chance to talk to with Robert Kokotailo (the author of the study presented above)&nbsp; about&nbsp; Koson coins , he had one or two gold Koson for sale ..... his story about Koson coins aroused my interest and I did some researches after. I found this case study from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) </p><p><a href="https://sherloc.unodc.org/res/cld/case-law-doc/traffickingculturalpropertycrimetype/rou/dacian_treasure_case_html/Dacian_Treasure_Case.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://sherloc.unodc.org/res/cld/case-law-doc/traffickingculturalpropertycrimetype/rou/dacian_treasure_case_html/Dacian_Treasure_Case.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://sherloc.unodc.org/res/cld/case-law-doc/traffickingculturalpropertycrimetype/rou/dacian_treasure_case_html/Dacian_Treasure_Case.pdf</a></p><p>During the 1993 - 2007 period a series of Koson hoards were stolen from Romanian archaeological sites(protected by UNESCO) ,&nbsp; they are still internationally pursued by Interpol :</p><p><br /></p><p>year 1996&nbsp; - around 3000 Koson gold coins - 25 kg </p><p>year 2004&nbsp; - 2300 Koson silver coins&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>year 2007&nbsp; - 1200 Koson gold coins</p><p><br /></p><p>As stated in the document , till now they recovered only 1.024 gold and 252 silver Koson coins.... a few thousand coins are still missing&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>coins recovered during the 2014 -2018 period&nbsp; :</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132338[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132340[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132343[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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