Æ31 - Marcus Aurelius ΕΠΙ ΙΕΡΙ (Λ) ΒΑϹΙΛΟΥϹ ϹΥΝΝΑΔΕΩΝ

Synnada, a Phrygian city granted conventus status under Rome, issued civic bronzes with considerable autonomy during the Antonine period — the magistrate name preserved in the obverse legend helps anchor this piece within a sequence of local officeholders whose tenures are still being reconstructed from surviving specimens. The abbreviation ΕΠΙ signals the Greek epi-formula, marking the named magistrate as the issuing authority, a convention standard across Asia Minor civic coinage but particularly well-documented in the Synnadan series.

The narrow date range corresponds to Aurelius's sole reign following Antoninus Pius's death in 161 AD, before the co-emperorship with Verus fully reshaped provincial honorific practice.