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Æ23 - Marcus Aurelius ϹΥΡΙωИ ΚΑΒΙ
| Issuer | Syros (Achaea) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC Online IV.2#4708 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Syros, a small Cycladic island with little political weight under Roman rule, issued bronze coinage sporadically and in limited volume — making any survivor statistically uncommon. This piece falls within the co-regency years of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, when imperial portrait types proliferated across even minor provincial mints as civic authorities scrambled to acknowledge the unprecedented dual principate announced in 161 AD. The ΚΑΒΙ abbreviation in the legend almost certainly references a local magistrate, a kabiernos or similar civic title, whose full identity remains unresolved in the epigraphic record.