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Sestertius - Caligula Apamea

Issuer Apamea (Phrygia)
Year 38
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Currency Denarius (49 BC to AD 215)
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Obverse script Latin
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Mintage ND (38) - Apamaea
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Apamea in Phrygia was a Roman colony — one of the few in the eastern provinces — and its civic coinage under Caligula reflects that status directly. The city held the unusual privilege of issuing bronze in the emperor's name through local magistrates, a right exercised here in the first year of Caligula's reign. RPC I 2012 is documented from a small number of dies, and surviving specimens are scarce enough that the type rarely appears on the open market.

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