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Perperene, Mysia, 4th Century B.C.
Perperene or Perperena was a city of ancient Mysia on the south-east of Adramyttium, in the neighborhood of which there were copper mines and good vineyards. It was said by some to be the place in which Thucydides had died. Stephanus of Byzantium calls the town Parparum or Parparon, but he writes that some called the place Perine. Ptolemy calls it Perpere or Permere. According to the Suda, Hellanicus of Lesbos, a 5th-century B.C. Greek logographer, died at Perperene at age 85. At a later date it was given the name Theodosiopolis or Theodosioupolis. It is located near Asagi Beykoy, on the Kozak plateau near Bergama in the Izmir province of Turkey in western Anatolia.GA95888. Bronze AE 8, cf. SNG BnF 2309; SNG Cop 520; BMC Mysia p. 168, 2; SNG Tübingen -; Waddington - (none of the reference coins with this style or ethnic arrangement), F, dark patina, flatly struck centers, corrosion, Perperene (near Bergama, Turkey) mint, weight 0.581g, maximum diameter 8.1mm, 4th century B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right; reverse ΠEPΠE, grape bunch on vine; from the Michael Arslan Collection, this is the very first coin of Perperene handled by FORVM; very rare; SOLD
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