Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 190. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $810. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SKYTHIA, Geto-Dacians. Koson. Mid 1st century BC. AR Drachm (4.08 g, 9h). Draped bust of Artemis right; three pellets behind; all within the center of a Macedonian shield / Club; KOSON above, DROUEIS below; all within oak wreath; thunderbolt to left. New York Sale IX, lot 66; otherwise unpublished. Good VF, iridescent toning.

As with his gold staters, Koson is copying the types used on another coinage, here the tetradrachms of the Macedonian First Meris. The meaning of the lower legend on the reverse is unknown.