Cilicia, Anemurium
Struck under Antiochus IV of Commagene, 38-71 CE
AE 5.47g 21.23mm
Diademed and draped bust of Iotape right /
Apollo standing left, holding aphlaston and scepter.
Köhler-Osbahr 2; RPC I 3706; SNG BN –; SNG Levante 486
Anemurium, whose ruins are still visible, was located at the southern-most point of Asia Minor. Today, a theater, Odeon, baths, and a medieval castle are visitable on the cape.
In 54 CE, the city was besieged by the Clietai, but then saved by Antiochos IV of Commagene. It was under him that this coin was minted. Coins minted by him are the earliest known from Anemurium, though they continued to the time of Valerian. Pictured on the obverse of this coin is Queen Iotape, the wife of Antiochos IV. She died in 52 CE, but was honored for some time afterwards.
54 CE
Anemurium besieged by the Clietae, but rescued by Antiochos IV of Commagene
260 CE
Anemurium captured by the Sassanians