Watch List notes:

MESOPOTAMIA. Anthemusia. Elagabalus, 218-222. AE (Bronze, 16 mm, 3.38 g, 11 h). ΑИΤΜИΙИΟC [...] Radiate head of Elagabal to left. Rev. [AΝΘЄ]MΟΥCΙ Turreted and veiled head of Tyche to right. BMC -. Heritage Auction 61151 (2020), 97062. SNG Copenhagen -. Lindgren -. Extremely rare. Very fine.


The city of Anthemusia (or Charax Sidou) lay some 45 km away from Apameia on the Euphrates. An early Hellenistic foundation, it was perhaps established on the site of an earlier native settlement and, most certainly, named after the city and region Anthemous in Macedonia.