Index Apamea Bithynia

Collection of Greek Coins of Bithynia / Βιθυνία
Apameia - Myrleia / Απάμεια - Μύρλεια

The town was founded as a colony of the Colophonians and was originaly named Bryleion. Since about 330 BC it was called Μύρλεια (Myrleia or Myrlea). 433 BC the city became a menber of the Attic-Delian League. At the end of the 4th c. BC it belonged to the kingdom of Mithradates II of Kios. Philip V of Macedon took the town during his war against the king of Pergamon. The city was detroyed and given to his ally, King Prusias I of Bithynia, who fortified and enlarged it - indeed almost rebuilt it - around 202 BC, renaming it Ἀπάμεια (transcribed as Apameia, Apamea, or Apamia), after his wife, Apama III.

The place was on the south coast of the Gulf of Erdek of the Marmara Sea, 1 km south-east of the modern Mudanya, and northwest of Bursa, then called Prusa, for which it served as a port.

The Romans took the city 72 BC, during the 3rd Mithradatic war, and made Apameia a colonia, apparently in the time of Augustus, or perhaps Julius Caesar, in view of the adjective "Iulia" that appears on its coins under Roman rule. Its earlier coins were stamped Ἀπαμέων Μυρλεάνων, but in Roman times they bore the label C.I.C.A. (= Colonia Iulia Concordia Apamea). Apameia was looted by the Goths 257/8 AD, and coin minting ended at that time..

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RPC Map

Ex H.Kiepert, Atlas antiquus, Berlin, Reimer, ca. 1875 AD

Apamea Bithynia - Centering Statististics
obverse Image	no centering -/-	onesided centering +/- or -/+	twosided centering +/+	Comments
Augustus 27 BC-14 AD	3
Agrippina Sr. 14-33 AD	1
Caligula 37-41 AD	1
Nero 54-68 AD	1
Vespasianus 69-79 AD	1
Traianus 98-117 AD	1
Hadrianus 117-138 AD	2
Antoninus Pius 138-161 AD	2		2
Faustina jr. 161-176 AD			1
Marcus Aurelius 161-180 AD	2		3
Commodus 177-192 AD	1		6
Septimius Severus 193-211 AD	1		2
Iulia Domna 193-211 AD			2
Geta 198-212 AD			2
Caracalla 198-217 AD			5
Elagabalus 218-222 AD			3
Severus Alexander 222-235 AD	1		1
Maximinus I 235-238 AD			1
Gordianus III 241-244 AD			2
Tranquillina 238-244 AD			2
Otacilia Severa 244-249 AD			1
Philippus II 247-249 AD			1
Traianus Decius 249-251 AD			3
Herenia Etruscilla 249-251 AD			2
Volusianus 251-253 AD			2
Trebonianus Gallus 251-254 AD			3
Valerianus I 253-260 AD			2
Gallienus 253-268 AD	2
Valerianus II 256-258 AD			2