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36 silver coins are rewriting an entire chapter of Thracian history.
King Mostis ruled for nearly 40 years in the heart of the Strandzha Mountains, yet you’re probably hearing his name for the first time. In 2012, archaeologist Daniela Agre opened a clay pot near Sinemorets, and what she found inside shook our understanding of the last free Thracian rulers before Rome.
This is the story of the ASTEAN KINGDOM—the forgotten Thracian state that endured for over two centuries in Strandzha. With fortified palaces. With a mint. With trade networks stretching from the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea. And with a ruler whose name we only began to decipher yesterday from coins hidden for over 2,000 years.
Who was Mostis’s ally—Rome or Mithridates VI of Pontus? Why were the thick fortress walls near Brodilovo engulfed in flames in 72 B.C.E.? And what else lies beneath the hills of Strandzha that we still do not suspect?
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36 silver coins are rewriting an entire chapter of Thracian history.
King Mostis ruled for nearly 40 years in the heart of the Strandzha Mountains, yet you’re probably hearing his name for the first time. In 2012, archaeologist Daniela Agre opened a clay pot near Sinemorets, and what she found inside shook our understanding of the last free Thracian rulers before Rome.
This is the story of the ASTEAN KINGDOM—the forgotten Thracian state that endured for over two centuries in Strandzha. With fortified palaces. With a mint. With trade networks stretching from the Black Sea to the Marmara Sea. And with a ruler whose name we only began to decipher yesterday from coins hidden for over 2,000 years.
Who was Mostis’s ally—Rome or Mithridates VI of Pontus? Why were the thick fortress walls near Brodilovo engulfed in flames in 72 B.C.E.? And what else lies beneath the hills of Strandzha that we still do not suspect?
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