Ancient Coin Stories

Let coins tell their stories…

Phrygia

188 BCE

Treaty of Apamea. Euromos, and Abydos returned to the Kingdom of Pergamon.

90 BCE

An earthquake attested by Jewish sources destroys Apamea.

88 BCE

Adramytteion, Ephesos, Pergamon, Magnesia, Tralles, Apamea, Kolophon, Smyrna, and Sardis occupied by Mithridates VI as part of the Mithridatic Wars against Rome.

84 BCE

Sulla defeats Mithridates VI and ends the Mithridatic Wars with the Treaty of Dardanos. Adramytteion, Ephesos, Pergamon, Smyrna, Sardis, Tralles, Kolophon, Apamea, and Magnesia return to Roman control.

84 BCE

Sulla makes Apamea in Phrygia a local capital.

62 BCE

The Roman Flaccus confiscates 45 kg of gold intended for the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem at Apamea in Phrygia.