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“The koson is the only gold coin from the era of Dacian royalty, but there is no evidence that it was issued by the Dacians. It imitates the republican Roman denarius from the time of Brutus – one of Caesar’s assassins – but specialists have not yet clarified all the aspects related to the koson.
All the kosons were discovered in Transylvania, the vast majority of them right in the area of the Dacian fortresses in the Orăștiei Mountains – but none in professional archaeological excavations. Nowhere else in the world have kosoni been discovered, a sign that these coins did not circulate.
“There are two types of kosoni: those with a monogram – which are the most numerous – and those without a monogram, extremely few. Before 1990, I was aware of several copies without monogram. Now there are several dozen. The kosons with monogram – over a thousand, on specialized sites on the Internet – are not made of Transylvanian gold.
It is clearly gold from other sources, probably from the south of the Danube, refined Balkan gold. Conversely, kosons without a monogram are most likely our gold. It seems that the Dacians tried to imitate this coin, but they minted few copies. Even the work of the coins in this category is coarser than the other kosoni, a sign that they are imitations.” – retrieved text
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