Æ18 - Vespasian ΕΠΙ ΜΑΡΚΕΛΛΟΥ ϹΥΝΑΕΙΤΩΝ

Synaus was a minor Lydian city in the Caystros valley whose coins are rare enough that even the RPC corpus lists only a handful of dies for this magistrate issue. The ethnic ϹΥΝΑΕΙΤΩΝ places it firmly within the Sardis conventus — the judicial district through which Rome administered western Anatolia — and the magistrate Marcellus named in the legend was almost certainly a local Greek official rather than a Roman appointee, reflecting the hybrid civic-Roman administrative model Vespasian largely left undisturbed after the upheaval of 69.