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Amorion, Phrygia, c. 2nd - 3rd Century A.D.
Amorion in Phrygia was founded in the Hellenistic period. Early historical records that mention the city are strictly limited to a reference by Strabo. On the Byzantine military road from Constantinople to Cilicia, the city flourished under the Byzantine Empire. It declined after the Arab sack of 838, after which 42 Byzantine officers and notables of Amorium were taken as hostages to Samarra (in Iraq today). Refusing to convert to Islam, they were executed there in 845, and became canonized as the "42 Martyrs of Amorium." The city's ruins are located under and around the modern village of Hisarköy, 13 kilometers east of the district center, Emirdag, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey.SL87436. Bronze medallion, Apparently unpublished, SNG Cop -, SNGvA -, SNG Mün -, SNG Tüb -, SNG Tire -, SNG Hunt -, SNG Leypold -, BMC Phrygia -, Imhoof MG -, RPC -, NGC VF, strike 5/5, surface 1/5, pierced (2490378-005), Phrygia, Amorion (Hisarköy, Turkey) mint, weight 2.155g, maximum diameter 16.7mm, die axis 0o, c. 2nd - 3rd century A.D.; obverse head of Herakles right, wearing Nemean Lion skin, scalp over head, forepaws tied at neck; reverse AMOPI-A-NΩN, lion advancing right; NGC| Lookup; extremely rare; SOLD
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