Elagabalus AE22 from Apamea Myrleia in Bithynia.  

Obv:  IMP C M AVRELIVS ANTONINVS AV, laureate head right.  
Rev:  C· I C· A D· D, letters in two lines.  
 Note that the "A" is written here as an Lambda.  

The reverse letters translate as Colonia Julia Concordia Apamea 
Decurionum Decreto.  

Apamea, originally Myrlea, was renamed, circ. B.C. 
202, by Prusias I, king of Bithynia, after his wife, Apama.  It became a 
colonia, circ. B.C. 47.  

SNG Tübingen 2098; Waddington, Rec. 91


Contributed by John Noory, August, 2005.