Æ22 - Trajan ΝΑΚΟΛΕΩΝ

Nacolea was a minor Phrygian city whose civic coinage under Trajan falls within the administratively consolidated conventus of Synnada — a Roman judicial district that grouped smaller communities for legal and financial purposes. The city's Greek ethnic on the coin, ΝΑΚΟΛΕΩΝ, reflects the persistence of Hellenic civic identity in interior Anatolia well into the second century, even as Roman provincial administration tightened its grip on the region's institutions.