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Æ15 - Marcus Aurelius ϹΥΝΑΕΙΤΩΝ
| Issuer | Synaus, Phrygia (under Roman Imperial authority) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of Heracles facing right, depicted bearded with characteristic curly hair rendered in a stylized, granular manner. The portrait is rendered in low relief typical of Phrygian provincial bronze coinage of the Antonine period. A dotted border surrounds the field. |
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| Reverse description | Telesphorus, the divine healer associated with Asclepius, standing facing in his distinctive pointed hooded cloak that falls to his feet, depicted frontally in a rigid, hieratic posture. The figure is rendered in low relief with the characteristic conical silhouette that serves as the deity's primary iconographic attribute. The ethnic legend of the Synaeitans is distributed in the field around the figure. |
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Synaus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Marcus Aurelius was struck during the early co-reign with Lucius Verus, before the latter's death in 169 AD. The city's bronze issues from this period are rare enough that die studies remain incomplete — the local magistrates responsible for authorizing the strikes are often unattested elsewhere, and the abbreviated ethnic ϹΥΝΑΕΙΤΩΝ itself appears inconsistently rendered across the surviving corpus.