Koson (coin)

The golden koson imitation of a Roman denarius minted with the legend ΚΟΣΩΝ.

The Kosons are the only gold coins that have been minted by the Dacians, named after the Greek alphabet inscription "ΚΟΣΩΝ" on them.[1] It is thought that "Koson" is the name of an otherwise historically unrecorded Dacian king, though he may be identical to the Cotison mentioned by Horace and Suetonius.

  1. ^ Bogdan Constantinescu et al, "Archaeometallurgical Characterization Of Ancient Gold Artifacts From Romanian Museums Using XRF, Micro-pixe And Micro-SR-XRF Methods", in Proceedings Of The Romanian Academy" Series A, Volume 13, Number 1/2012, pp. 19–26