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Æ26 - Marcus Aurelius ϹΥΝΝΑΔΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Synnada (Conventus of Synnada) |
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| Year | 161-169 |
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| Weight | 10.22 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of the Demos, youthful and bare-headed, facing right, rendered in the typical civic personification style of Phrygian provincial coinage. The legend ΔΗΜΟϹ appears in the field, identifying the effigy as the personified people of Synnada. The portrait displays soft, idealized facial features characteristic of Greek Imperial civic types. A post-antique hole is pierced through the lower central field of the flan, indicating later reuse as a pendant or ornament. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Synnada, a Phrygian city best known in antiquity for its quarries of pavonazzetto marble — the purple-veined stone that decorated the floors of Roman temples and imperial buildings — struck bronze coinage under Marcus Aurelius during the co-reign with Lucius Verus. Provincial bronzes from the Conventus of Synnada during this window are relatively scarce; the city's civic output was never prolific, and the surviving die corpus for Synnada across the whole imperial period remains thin compared to its Phrygian neighbors like Laodicea or Hierapolis.