Karia, Antiochia ad Maeandrum
Lucius Verus. 161-169 CE
AE 14.5mm 2.78g
Obv: AY KAI Λ BHPOC, laureate head right.
Rev: ANTIOXEΩΝ, winged Nemesis standing right, holding cubit rule.
RPC IV online 829
According to Stephanus of Byzantium, Antiochia ad Maeandrum was founded by Antiochos II. Pliny mentioned that it replaced two cities, Symmaithos and Kranaos, the latter of which also minted coins. In ancient times, a crucial bridge over the Maeander was located there. Some of its coinage depicts it.
Per Strabo:
Antiocheia has considerable territory on each side of the river, which is everywhere fertile, and it produces in greatest quantities the ‘Antiocheian’ dried fig, as it is called, though they also name the same fig “three-leaved.
Today, the city is near Azizabat, Turkey. Its coinage is common, thus indicating how large a city it must have been.