Æ28 - Antoninus Pius ] ϹΥΝΑΕΙΤΩΝ

Synaus was a minor Lydian city whose civic coinage under Antoninus Pius reflects the broader Hadrianic reorganization of the Sardis conventus — the judicial district through which Rome administered western Anatolia. These small civic bronzes were struck not by imperial authority but by local magistrates, and the ethnikons inscribed on them were points of civic pride in towns that otherwise left almost no trace in the literary record. Synaus itself is known primarily through its coins and a handful of inscriptions.