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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Anatolia| > |Phrygia| > |Apameia Cibotus| > GB96747
Apameia ad Maeandrum, Phrygia, c. 133 - 48 B.C.
|Apameia| |Cibotus|, |Apameia| |ad| |Maeandrum,| |Phrygia,| |c.| |133| |-| |48| |B.C.|, ΕΓΛOΓIΣ (eglogis) means elected in Greek and ΕΓΛOΓIΣTΗΣ (eglogistes) was presumably the magistrate's title.

Rome received Apamea with the Pergamene Kingdom in 133 B.C., but sold it to Mithridates V of Pontus, who held it till 120 BC. After the Mithridatic Wars it became a great center for trade, largely carried on by resident Italians and Jews. Apamea is mentioned in the Talmud (Ber. 62a, Niddah, 30b and Yeb. 115b). By order of Flaccus, nearly 45 kilograms of gold, intended by Jews for the Temple in Jerusalem was confiscated in Apamea in 62 B.C. Christianity was very likely established early in the city, and Saint Paul probably visited the place, for he went throughout Phrygia. The city's decline dates from the local disorganization of the empire in the 3rd century.
GB96747. Bronze AE 20, SNG Cop 183; SNGvA 3470; SNG Munchen 123; BMC Phrygia p. 80, 67; Weber 7028; HGC 7 672, VF, green patina, minor flaw on face, light marks, areas of porosity, light deposits, Phrygia, Apameia ad Maeandrum (Dinar, Turkey) mint, weight 7.860g, maximum diameter 20.0mm, die axis 0o, magistrate Heraklei, eglogistes, c. 133 - 48 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Zeus right; reverse cultus-statue of Artemis Anaitis facing, wearing polos and veil, arms extended with supports, AΠAME downward on right, HPAKΛEI / EΓΛO (magistrate name and title) in two downward lines on the left; ex David Wray Collection; SOLD











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