circa 100-0 BCE
Æ 15mm, 3,84g
Obv : Laureate head of Zeus right.
Rev : ЄIKONIЄωN. Perseus standing left, holding harpa and head of Medusa
SNG France 2272-2276; Aulock Lykaonien 252; HGC 7, 789
Eikonion, though a small city when this was minted, is the modern day city of Konya, Turkey. It is the capital of the Konya province and a major city in Turkey with roughly 2.3 million people.
Like many cities of Anatolia, its history goes back thousands of years. After Alexander the Great‘s death, it fell under Seleukos I Nikator and later became part of the Kingdom of Pergamon.