Æ21 - Marcus Aurelius ϹΥΝΑΕΙΤΩΝ

Synaus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage was struck intermittently and in small volumes, largely dependent on local magistrates petitioning for the right to mint. The opening years of Marcus Aurelius's reign — before the Parthian War consumed imperial attention — saw a brief window of provincial minting activity across the Sardis conventus, and Synaus took the opportunity.

The city's ethnic legend ϹΥΝΑΕΙΤΩΝ places this firmly among the self-identifying civic issues that Lydian communities used to assert municipal identity within the Roman administrative framework.