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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Phrygia| > |Apameia Cibotus| > GB80881
Apameia ad Maeandrum, Phrygia, c. 133 - 48 B.C.
|Apameia| |Cibotus|, |Apameia| |ad| |Maeandrum,| |Phrygia,| |c.| |133| |-| |48| |B.C.|,
After Antiochus the Great founded Apamea, he transplanted many Jews there. (Josephus, Ant. xii. 3, § 4). It became a seat of Seleucid power and a center of Graeco-Roman and Graeco-Hebrew civilization and commerce. After Antiochus' departure for the East, Apamea lapsed to the Pergamene kingdom and thence to Rome in 133 B.C. It was resold to Mithridates V of Pontus, who held it till 120 B.C. After the Mithridatic Wars it became and remained a great center for trade, largely carried on by resident Italians and by Jews. By order of Flaccus, a large amount of Jewish money, nearly 45 kilograms of gold, intended for the Temple in Jerusalem was confiscated in Apamea in the year 62 B.C. Apamea Cibotus
GB80881. Bronze AE 23, cf. BMC Phrygia p. 76, 37 ff., gVF, Phrygia, Apameia ad Maeandrum (Dinar, Turkey) mint, weight 7.091g, maximum diameter 23.2mm, die axis 0o, c. 133 - 48 B.C.; obverse helmeted bust of Athena right, wearing aegis; reverse AΠAMEΩN, eagle flying right, below Maeander symbol in center with caps of Dioskouroi and star above on each side; SOLD











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