Æ30 - Macrinus ΙΩΝΩΝ ΔΩΡΙΕΩΝ, ϹΥΝΝΑΔΕΩΝ

Synnada was a Phrygian city of modest political weight, but its civic mint was active enough under the Severan dynasty to strike issues for multiple emperors. Macrinus — the first emperor never to have served in the Senate before taking the throne — reigned barely fourteen months before his defeat by Elagabalus's forces at the Battle of Antioch in June 218. Provincial bronzes struck in his name are correspondingly scarce; the mint simply ran out of time.

The ethnic legend pairing the Ionians and Dorians with the Synnadeians reflects a longstanding civic tradition of claiming prestigious Hellenic descent. The V.2#35 reference places this squarely within a well-documented but thinly represented series.