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Æ21 - Domitian ϹΥ-ΡΙ, ΚΑ-ΒΙΡ (across field)

Issuer Syros (Achaea)
Year 81-96
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Weight 7.53 g
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Obverse script Greek
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Reverse lettering ϹΥ-ΡΙ, ΚΑ-ΒΙΡ (across field)
(Translation: 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.

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