Cotiaeum, a Phrygian city in the Synnadean conventus, struck coins under local magistrates whose names appear in the legends — here Claudius Varos, serving as archon for a second term, the "B" denoting his repeat office. This practice of naming the presiding magistrate was standard civic self-promotion in the Greek east, and it means dies from different magistracies are not interchangeable, making each named type its own discrete issue rather than a variant of a broader civic series.
Cotiaeum, a Phrygian city in the Synnadean conventus, struck coins under local magistrates whose names appear in the legends — here Claudius Varos, serving as archon for a second term, the "B" denoting his repeat office. This practice of naming the presiding magistrate was standard civic self-promotion in the Greek east, and it means dies from different magistracies are not interchangeable, making each named type its own discrete issue rather than a variant of a broader civic series.