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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Greek Coins| ▸ |Geographic - All Periods| ▸ |Anatolia| ▸ |Phrygia| ▸ |Eumeneia||View Options:   | | | Eumenia, Phrygia was founded by Attalus II Philadelphus (159 - 138 B.C.) at the source of the Cludrus, near the Glaucus, and named after his brother Eumenes. Numerous inscriptions and many coins remain to show that Eumenia was an important and prosperous city under Roman rule. As early as the third century its population was in great part Christian, and it seems to have suffered much during the persecution of Diocletian. The remains of Eumenia are located in Denizli Province, Turkey on the shore of Lake Isikli near Civril. |
Eumenea, Phrygia was founded by Attalus II Philadelphus (159 - 138 B.C.) at the source of the Cludrus, near the Glaucus, and named after his brother Eumenes. Numerous inscriptions and many coins remain to show that Eumenia was an important and prosperous city under Roman rule. As early as the third century its population was in great part Christian, and it seems to have suffered much during the persecution of Diocletian. The remains of Eumenia are located in Denizli Province, Turkey on the shore of Lake Isikli near Civril.RP110014. Bronze AE 26, RPC Online IV-2 T1989; BMC Phrygia p. 219, 56; SNGvA 3594; SNG Leypold II 1540; Weber 7096; SNG Tübingen 4014; SNG Cop -, F, rough, black patina, weight 10.205 g, maximum diameter 25.7 mm, die axis 0o, Eumeneia (near Civril, Turkey) mint, obverse AVTO KAICA ANTΩNEINOC, laureate and cuirassed bust right, aegis on left shoulder, seen from the front; reverse EVMENEΩN AXAIΩN, hump-backed bull walking left, Nike walking left on far side of bull, wearing chiton, grasping bull's left horn and guiding bull with left hand, brandishing knife to sacrifice bull in right hand;
Julia Domna, Augusta 194 - 8 April 217 A.D., Eumeneia, Phrygia
Coins of Eumeneia from the Severan Period are quite rare. Most of the major museum collections don't have even a single example. The city also seems to have produced some quasi-autonomous coinage during this time. Our coin is not listed in any of the references examined and is likely unpublished and possibly unique.RP83403. Bronze AE 23, BMC Phrygia -, SNG Cop -, SGICV -, Lindgren -, SNG Hunterian -, SNGvA -, SNG Österreich -, SNG Righetti -, SNG Tüb -, SNG Munchen -, VF, weight 6.592 g, maximum diameter 22.6 mm, die axis 0o, Eumeneia (near Civril, Turkey) mint, obverse ΙΟΥΛΙΑ CEBAC, draped bust right; reverse ΕΥΜΕΝΕΩΝ ΑΧΑΙΩΝ, Dionysos standing facing, head left, thyrsos in left, kantharos in right, panther at feet; unpublished in the many references checked; extremely rare; SOLD
Eumenia, Phrygia, c. 189 - 133 B.C.
Lindgren plate coin. Eumenia was renamed Fulvia, for Mark Antony's wife, probably on the occasion of Antony's visit east in 41 B.C. The city issued coins with Fulvia's portrait. She was the first non-mythological woman on Roman coins. Fulvia died in 40 B.C. and the name soon reverted to Eumenia. Lindgren attributed this issue to the 2nd century B.C. but a comparison of the female head to Fulvia is hard to ignore.GB16395. Bronze AE 12, Lindgren III 581 (this coin, otherwise unpublished); cf. RPC I 3141 for a similar portrait, VF, weight 1.051 g, maximum diameter 12.2 mm, die axis 0o, Eumeneia (near Civril, Turkey) mint, c. 189 - 133 B.C.; obverse draped female bust right; reverse EYME/[NE]ΩN, double axe; black patina; extremely rare; SOLD
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