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Æ25 - Antoninus Pius ϹΥΡΙ ΚΑΒΙΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Syros (Achaea) |
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| Year | 147-161 |
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| Weight | 8.71 g |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Confronted busts of Marcus Aurelius as Caesar (left, with short beard) and Faustina II (right), facing one another across the field. Between the two portraits, an ear of corn is depicted vertically; below, a bee and a star appear in the lower field. The encircling Greek legend identifies the issuing community and its divine patrons. The composition reflects the provincial coinage tradition of the Aegean islands honoring the Kabeiroi mysteries. |
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Syros occupied an awkward position in the Roman provincial coinage system — a small Cycladic island with outsized religious pretensions, its civic bronzes leaning heavily on the Kabeiroi, the chthonic mystery cult deities whose worship the island claimed as its own particular inheritance. The Kabeiroi were associated with Samothrace more broadly, but individual island communities competed for cultic prestige, and coinage was one vehicle for asserting it.
RPC IV.2 #6691 is known from very few specimens, the corpus assembled only through decades of scattered auction appearances.