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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2094411, member: 44132&quot;]This arrived in yesterday&#039;s mail.&nbsp; It is very nice in hand, but I&#039;m not sure the images do it justice.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]392853[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]392854[/ATTACH] </p><p>APAMEIA, PHRYGIA</p><p>AE23</p><p>OBVERSE:&nbsp; Laureate head of Zeus right </p><p>REVERSE:&nbsp; APAME to the right, cult statue of Artemis Anaïtis standing facing, magistrate HRAKLEI EGLO to left</p><p>Struck at Pergamon 133-27 BC</p><p>8.38g, 22mm</p><p>SNGCop 183.1; BMC Phrygia p. 77, 48</p><p><br /></p><p>From Wikipedia:</p><p>&quot;The Phrygians are most famous for their legendary kings of the heroic age of Greek mythology: Gordias whose Gordian Knot would later be cut by Alexander the Great, Midas who turned whatever he touched to gold, and Mygdon who warred with the Amazons. According to Homer&#039;s Iliad, the Phrygians were close allies of the Trojans and participants in the Trojan War against the Achaeans. Phrygian power reached its peak in the late 8th century BC under another, historical king Midas, who dominated most of western and central Anatolia and rivaled Assyria and Urartu for power in eastern Anatolia. This later Midas was, however, also the last independent king of Phrygia before its capital Gordium was sacked by Cimmerians around 695 BC. Phrygia then became subject to Lydia, and then successively to Persia, Alexander and his Hellenistic successors, Pergamon, Rome and Byzantium. Phrygians were gradually assimilated into other cultures by the early medieval era, and after the Turkish conquest of Anatolia the name Phrygia passed out of usage as a territorial designation.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]392857[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><u>Then there is the Phrygian cap we see on later roman FH coins</u>:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Phrygian cap is a soft conical cap with the top pulled forward, associated in antiquity with the inhabitants of Phrygia, a region of central Anatolia. In early modern Europe it came to signify freedom and the pursuit of liberty, through a confusion with the pileus, the felt cap of manumitted (emancipated) slaves of ancient Rome. Accordingly, the Phrygian cap is sometimes called a liberty cap; in artistic representations it signifies freedom and the pursuit of liberty.&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]392856[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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