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Æ21 - Domitian ϹΥ-ΡΙ, ΚΑ-ΒΙΡ (across field)
| Issuer | Syros (Achaea) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΟϹ ΔΟΜΙΤΙΑ-ΝΟϹ (Translation: Caesar Augustus Domitian) |
| Reverse description | Two confronted busts facing one another, identified tentatively as Domitian and Domitia assimilated to the Kabeiroi, the twin mystery deities venerated on Samothrace and throughout the Aegean. Between the two busts, a corn-ear is depicted in the central field, symbolizing fertility and divine abundance. Below the busts, a star and a bee appear as additional religious or civic symbols. The legend ϹΥ-ΡΙ and ΚΑ-ΒΙΡ is distributed across the field between and around the two heads, identifying the Kabeiroi of the Syrians. |
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Syros, one of the smaller Cycladic islands, retained the right to strike civic bronze under the Flavians — a privilege that was neither guaranteed nor uniform across the Greek provinces. The Kabeiroi invoked in this issue's field inscription connect the coinage to a mystery cult tradition with roots in the pre-Greek Aegean, one the island community clearly found worth advertising on official bronze. Local civic issues of this type ceased entirely within a generation, making the Domitian-era series among the last attestations of independent Syriote minting.