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Æ19 - Domitian ΕΠΙ ΦΛΑΟΥΙΟΥ ΠΕΙΝΑΡΙΟΥ ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣ
| Issuer | Cidyessus (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 81-96 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Zeus enthroned, seated left on a high-backed throne, holding a patera in his extended right hand and a long sceptre in his left. The figure is rendered in the conventional provincial Zeus type, with drapery across the lower body. The Greek magistrate legend encircles the type around the periphery of the flan. |
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Cidyessus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Domitian names the local archpriest Flavius Peinaros as issuing authority — a practice common in the Synnada conventus, where Roman magistrates and Hellenized local elites shared administrative credit on the coinage. The name Peinaros itself is of indigenous Anatolian stock, suggesting a family that had taken Roman citizenship, likely under the Flavians, while retaining a pre-Greek name.
The conventus of Synnada administered a broad inland region of Phrygia, and civic bronzes from its smaller member cities survive in notably small numbers.