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Apamea ad Orontem — situated on a plateau above the Orontes River in northern Syria — was one of the great Seleucid foundations, planted by Seleucus I and named for his Bactrian wife. By the time these bronzes were struck, the city had passed into Roman hands following Pompey's reorganization of the east in 64 BC. The dating of this issue to the decade after Actium places it squarely in the transitional period when civic mints across Syria were recalibrating their output to the new Augustan order.