Dacia -Sarmizegetusa (modern Romania), Koson stater, circa 43 BC, 8.39 gm, 21 mm, 12 h. A hoard of several thousand of these staters was discovered in Sarmizegetusa in 1543. There are two types of these coins, with a BR monogram & without. The type without a monogram was made from native Dacian gold & the type with a monogram was made with Roman gold. Brutus, the lead assassin in Caesars murder, had these coins made to pay Dacian mercenaries in his war against Octavian, Antony, & Lepidus.
