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Dichalkon - Phainippos, son of Drakon
| Issuer | Apameia (Phrygia) |
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| Year | 133 BC - 48 BC |
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| Weight | 8.39 g |
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| Reverse description | An eagle, wings spread, alights to the right upon a maeander (key-pattern) band that divides the lower field. A six-pointed star appears in the upper field above the eagle's head, while the piloi (conical caps) of the Dioskouroi, each surmounted by a star, flank the central device at either side. The ethnic legend AΠAMEΩN is inscribed in the upper field, with the magistrates' names ΦΑΙΝΙΠΠΟΥ and ΔΡΑΚΟΝΤΟΣ arranged in two lines in the lower field beneath the maeander, identifying the issuing officials Phainippos, son of Drakon. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Apameia was refounded by Antiochus I on the site of Kelainai and named for his mother Apama, becoming one of the most commercially significant cities of interior Anatolia — a major node on the trade routes connecting the Aegean coast to Syria. Following the Roman reorganization of Asia after 133 BC, Phrygian civic bronzes like this one proliferated as local magistrates asserted municipal identity within the new provincial framework. The named magistrate Phainippos, son of Drakon, appears in the standard eponymous format used across the city's long bronze series, which spans nearly a century of provincial civic life.