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| Issuer | Apamea |
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| Year | 59 BC - 58 BC |
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| Weight | 8.99 g |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Apamea on the Orontes was one of the great Seleucid foundations, established by Seleucus I and named for his Bactrian wife. By the late 50s BC the city had passed firmly into Roman provincial administration following Pompey's reorganization of the East in 63 BC. This coin belongs to the earliest phase of that new order, struck under the province of Syria as local civic bronze issues continued alongside Roman authority — a transitional moment in the city's monetary history.
The BMC Greek 14 reference places this among a small, well-documented group from the civic series of that transitional decade.