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Æ - Mostis
| Issuer | Caeni (Thrace) |
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| Year | 130 BC - 100 BC |
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| Currency | Attic drachm |
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| Obverse description | Jugate busts of Zeus and Hera facing right, in close association, with Zeus in the foreground wearing a taenia and displaying his characteristic flowing hair and beard rendered in bold, rounded relief. Hera appears partially behind, her features more delicate. The field is plain, with no legend, the imagery filling the flan in the Hellenistic tradition of divine portraiture. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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The Caeni were a minor Thracian tribe whose territory sat in the hinterland between the Hebros valley and the Aegean coast — a region increasingly squeezed by Roman administrative expansion following the organization of Macedonia as a province in 146 BC. Mostis was their dynast, one of several local rulers who continued issuing bronze civic coinage well into the late second century, a privilege Rome tolerated from compliant client-adjacent communities. His issues are attested across multiple catalog traditions but remain poorly documented in terms of die studies.