Stack's Bowers & Ponterio
Collector's Choice February 2022 Auction 22-24 Feb 2022
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HGC-3.2, 2049; RPC-1, 1701A. Obverse: Roman consul accompanied by two lictors advancing left; monogram to left; Reverse: Eagle, holding wreath, standing left on scepter. An enchanting example of the popular Roman provincial type that displays both a phenomenal strike and exceptional surfaces. It is hard to find fault with the present example.
Though previously attributed to a Thracian king by the name of Koson and believed to allude to the denarius issued by M. Junius Brutus, more recent scholarship points toward an attribution to the Geto-Dacians, not Thrace, and somewhat before the referenced issue of Brutus.