The Numismatic Chronicle And Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, volume 5
The Numismatic Chronicle And Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, volume 5
Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)
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19. This tradition of their Colo- phonian origin is marked by their worship of Apollo Clarius; there exists a coin of M. Aurelius with the figure of Apollo, and the legend APOLLINI. CLaR. C. I. C. A. DD. See Sestini, Descrip. Num. Vet. p. 245, and Mionnet, Supp. v. p. 8. Digitized by VjOOQIC UNEDITED GREEK COINS. 189 whose leader was named Myrlus.^^ In the war between Philip, son of Demetrius, king of Macedonia, and Attains, king of Pergamus, Myrlea was taken and nearly destroyed by the former,... who gave it, with other places in Bithynia, to his son-in-law, Prusias, son of Zelus, king of Bithynia; when rebuilt by this latter prince, he changed the name to Apamea, in honour of his wife Apame.^^ Stephanus Byzantinus says, it was rebuilt by Nicomedes, the son of Prusias and Apame, but the derivation of the name in that case is the same. The three coins described above oflFer new types, and as they bear the name of Myrlea, they must have been struck previous to the destruction of the city by Philip.
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