ANCIENT GREECE - GREEK Dacia, Burebista (82-42 BC). Koson-type gold statere, without monogram (group III) ND (c.55-44 BC). Av. Eagle with outstretched wings left, holding a crown in the right hand and a sceptre in the left. Rv. KOΣΩN. Three figures, two lictors and a consul, passing left. RPC.1701B (Thrace, king Koson, uncertain) - Aurel Vîlcu, Transylvanian Review XIX, 2010 (D8/R3) ; Gold - 8,54 g - 19 mm - 12 h NGC Ch AU 5/5 4/5 die shift (8360705-005). Beautiful colour and strike in unrefined gold, analysis of which has shown Transylvanian alluvial origin. Superb Fleur de coin. This type reproduces the reverses of denarii issued in Rome: the eagle on the right copies the denarius issued in 73 BC by the monetary magistrate Q. Pomponius Rufus, while the reverse imitates the denarii of M. Iunius Brutus minted in 54 BC. Formed in two groups, with or without monograms, these staters seem to have come from a find in the vicinity of Târsa (Hunedoara county, Romania) or Sarmizegetusa. Long debated and attributed to a Thracian king by the name of Koson, these staters are now attributed to King Dace Burébista. After the death of Mithradates VI, he intervened in the rivalry between Julius Caesar and Pompey and supported Pompey as an ally. Our mint may date from 48 BC in Olbia, shortly after the conquest of that city.