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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 24669638, member: 87809&quot;]Also from Apameia, Phrygia, near the confluence of the Marsyas and Meander Rivers: </p><p>Æ 22</p><p>22 x 21 mm, 7.623 g</p><p>Phrygia, Apameia, ca. 88 - 40 BC, Magistrates Menek(leous) and Diod(dorus)</p><p>BMC 87; SNG Ashmolean 976; SNG Copenhagen 175; HGC 7, 672; Sear 5121</p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Laureate head of Zeus right</p><p>Rev.: ΑΠΑΜΕ / MENEK / ΔIOΔ. (magistrates Menek(leous) and Diod(dorus) in two lines. Facing statue of Artemis Anaïtis.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although this coin is from Apameia in Phrygia, east of Lydia, which in 546 BC became a province of the Achaemenid Persian empire, the Greek and Roman historians transliterate Anahita as Anaïtis, an old Iranian goddess. Her worship goes back to the 4th century BC.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Picture courtesy Frank S. Robinson: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573235[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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