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Chalkon - Antiochos IV
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 175 BC - 163 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Antiochos IV Epiphanes — "God Manifest" — was the king whose aggressive Hellenization policies in Judaea directly triggered the Maccabean Revolt in 167 BC, the conflict commemorated annually in the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. Small bronze denominations like this chalkon circulated throughout his sprawling western Asian territories as the engine of daily market transactions, reaching hands in Antioch, Jerusalem, and Babylon alike during one of the ancient Near East's most politically combustible decades.
SC2 1486 is attested from the Antioch on the Orontes mint, the Seleucid administrative capital.