Hello
I would like to request the addition of a new issuer:
- the name of the issuer in English (and if possible also in French and Spanish)
En: Synnada
Fr: Synnada
Sp: Sinnada
It should be under Roman Provinces > Asia (Province) > Synnada (Conventus) > Cyzikus (City)
- its Wikidata code (for example, Q854 for Sri Lanka)
Q616079
- if there are no entries yet on Numista, the link to an auction site or a reference catalogue presenting at least one coin or banknote from this issuer
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?city_id=188
- if they already exist in the catalogue, the link of one or more Numista records that you want to classify under this issuer
- if necessary, the list of other issuers to be linked by “see also” links
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- if possible, a brief introduction presenting the history of this issuer with any numismatic considerations useful to the reader
Synnada was an ancient Roman town in the Conventus of Synnada, Province of Asia, in the region of Phrygia Salutaris in Asia Minor. Its site corresponds to the modern-day town of Şuhut, in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey.
According to legend, Synnada was founded by Acamas, son of Theseus, who went to Phrygia after the Trojan War with Macedonian colonists. It is first mentioned by Livy, as a place visited by consul Gnaeus Manlius Vulso on his expeditions against the Galatians in 189 BC. After having belonged to the kingdom of the Attalids, it became the capital of a Roman district of the province of Asia. Pliny the Elder mentions Synnada as an important conventus juridicus around AD 77. Under Diocletian (286–305), at the time of the creation of Phrygia Pacatiana, Synnada became the metropolis.
The earliest coins of Synnada are Cistophori minted after 133 BC, featuring an amphora and an owl. The bronze coins of the same period show a turreted head of Kybele and Zeus holding fulmen. The coinage continued until the rule of Gallienus (253–268).
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