Eumeneia - later Fulvia or Fulviana - was a Pergamene city founded by Attalus II B.C. 159-138 as a counterpoise to the neighbouring Peltae, a Seleucid stronghold. He named it after his brother Eumenes.
he territory of Eumeneia comprised the rich plain between the lower Glaucus and its junction with the upper Maeander, in the midst of which stood, at Attanassos, the hieron of an old Phrygian god.
Its earliest coins are autonomous bronze of the second century B.C. Inscr., ΕΥΜΕΝΕΩΝ. Types—Head of Zeus, rev. oak-wreath; Head of Athena, rev. Nike; Head of Dionysos, rev. Tripod between bipennis entwined by serpent and filleted laurel branch, each surmounted by star, mostly with magistrates’ names in genitive case with patronymic. After an interval of about half a century coins were struck, probably at Eumeneia, under the name of Fulvia, which appears to have been imposed upon it for a very brief time in honour of the wife of Marcus Antonius.
he territory of Eumeneia comprised the rich plain between the lower Glaucus and its junction with the upper Maeander, in the midst of which stood, at Attanassos, the hieron of an old Phrygian god.
Its earliest coins are autonomous bronze of the second century B.C. Inscr., ΕΥΜΕΝΕΩΝ. Types—Head of Zeus, rev. oak-wreath; Head of Athena, rev. Nike; Head of Dionysos, rev. Tripod between bipennis entwined by serpent and filleted laurel branch, each surmounted by star, mostly with magistrates’ names in genitive case with patronymic. After an interval of about half a century coins were struck, probably at Eumeneia, under the name of Fulvia, which appears to have been imposed upon it for a very brief time in honour of the wife of Marcus Antonius.
Modern location: Çivril, Turkey
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Eumeneia
Obverse: laureate head of Zeus right
Reverse: oak wreath; EYME / NEΩN
Diameter:
16 mm
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.8 g
Die Orientation: -
Weight: 3.8 g
No notes for this coin
SNG Copenhagen 377-8.
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Fulvia
Obverse: Bust of Fulvia (as Victory) right.
Reverse: Minerva standing left, holding shield and spear; [ΦOYΛOYIANON] in right field, [Z]MEPTOPIΓOΣ / [Φ]IΛΩNIΔOΥ] in two lines in left field.
Diameter:
20 mm
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 6.1 g
Die Orientation: 12 H
Weight: 6.1 g
Provenance: From the Peter J. Merani Collection. Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 506.
RPC I 3139
