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Æ18 ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Apamea (Phrygia) (Conventus of Apamea) |
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| Year | 509 BC - 27 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (509 BC - 27 BC) |
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Apamea in Phrygia was refounded by the Seleucids — almost certainly by Antiochus I, who renamed the city from its earlier Phrygian name Celaenae in honor of his mother Apama, a Bactrian princess and the first wife of Seleucus I. The city sat astride the Royal Road and controlled a critical junction of Anatolian trade routes, which explains both its prosperity and the volume of civic bronze it produced under successive powers.
The magistrate's name carried on civic bronzes of this type served an administrative function, not an honorary one — accountability for the issue rested with the named official.