Æ19 - Vespasian ϹΥΝ(Α)ΕΙΤΩΝ ΑΠΟ(Λ)ΛΟΦΑΝΟΥ ΑΡΧ(Ο)(ΝΤΟϹ)

Synaus was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage output was sparse enough that individual magistrates' names on the legend represent a meaningful chronological anchor. The archon Apollophanes named here was a local official exercising the right to authorize bronze issues under Roman provincial oversight — a privilege the conventus system routed through Sardis. Vespasian's decade-long reign is the only window this piece can occupy, and given how few Synaean types are recorded, II#1371 is not a coin to pass over on the assumption that provincial Phrygia bronze is routine.