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Æ25 - Philip I C I C A APA, D D
| Issuer | Apamea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 244-249 |
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| Weight | 8.76 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A galley under oar advances to the right, depicted with a prominent ram at the prow and a horizontal oar or rudder visible along the hull. Three rowers are shown seated at the oars, rendered in the schematic style typical of provincial civic bronze coinage. The colonial legend is distributed around the type, with D D appearing in the lower exergual area, attesting to the authority of the local decurional council. |
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Apamea in Bithynia was a Macedonian foundation — originally Myrleia — refounded and renamed by Prusias I around 202 BC. By the time Philip I took the throne following the murder of Gordian III at Meshike, the city had been issuing autonomous bronze coinage for decades, and the civic magistrates responsible for these provincial issues wielded enough local authority to put their own names on the dies. The abbreviated magistrate formula visible in this coin's legend is the entire surviving record of at least one such official.