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Æ24 - Vespasian MVN STOB
| Issuer | Municipium Stoborum (Stobi), Roman province of Macedonia |
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| Year | 69-79 |
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| Weight | 7.66 g |
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| Obverse lettering | T IMP DOM CAES |
| Reverse description | Tetrastyle temple depicted in frontal elevation, with a triangular pediment surmounted by an acroterion, four columns resting on a stepped podium of three tiers, and a single pellet visible in the intercolumniation of the cella doorway. The municipal legend MVN STOB is inscribed to the right of the temple in the field, with scattered pellets in the lower field, all within a dotted border. |
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Stobi's civic coinage under Vespasian reflects the city's unusual status: a Roman municipium planted deep in Macedonia, populated partly by Italian settlers whose descendants retained Latin rights generations after the original colonization. The city struck bronze on its own authority during the Flavian period, one of only a handful of Macedonian communities permitted to do so under the reorganized provincial administration following the chaos of 69 AD — the Year of the Four Emperors — which Vespasian ended by taking Rome in the autumn of that year.