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Æ19 - Trajan ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΓΕ (ΟΥϹ) ϹΥΝ (Ε)Ι (ΩΝ)
| Issuer | Synaus (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 98-117 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse lettering | ΘΕΑΝ ΡΩΜΗΝ (Translation: for the Goddess Roma) |
| Reverse description | Apollo standing nude, facing right, with his right arm raised and drawn back toward his ear in the act of drawing a bow, while his left hand holds the bow. The figure is rendered in a classicising style typical of provincial Anatolian bronzes of the Trajanic period. The reverse legend naming the local magistrate Diogenes and the civic ethnikon of the Synaeites is distributed around the field within a dotted border. |
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Synaus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage depended entirely on the prestige of its magistrates to carry any weight — literally and politically. The inscription naming Diogenes as the presiding official places this piece within a well-documented Trajanic practice of delegating civic mint authority through local administrators answerable to the Conventus at Sardis. The partially preserved magistrate formula, reconstructed as ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟΓΕ(ΟΥϹ) ϹΥΝ(Ε)Ι(ΩΝ), suggests die wear or a cutter working in haste from a crowded flan.