Chalkon

Apameia, founded as a Seleucid military colony on the Orontes in northern Syria, became a major Macedonian settlement and one of the primary elephant depots of the Seleucid army. After Rome assigned the region to Pergamon following the Peace of Apameia in 188 BC, and then absorbed it into the province of Syria in 64 BC under Pompey, the city retained its autonomous bronze coinage well into the mid-first century. The HGC 7, 672 variety designation signals a die or iconographic deviation from the principal type — precisely the kind of minor civic variation that accumulated across a minting span exceeding eighty years.