Æ29 - Vespasian MVNICIPIVM STOBENSIVM

Stobi, situated at the confluence of the Crna and Vardar rivers in central Macedonia, was granted municipium status under the Flavians — likely by Vespasian himself — making this issue part of the first civic coinage the city struck under that newly elevated standing. The grant carried real administrative weight: local magistrates gained jurisdiction, Roman law applied, and the right to mint bronze for local circulation was both a privilege and a public advertisement of the city's new rank.

RPC II 335 is among the scarcer Stobi bronzes, with few die pairs documented across known specimens.