Chalkon - Antiochos IV Samaria

Antiochos IV Epiphanes is best known to history for his desecration of the Jerusalem Temple in 167 BC — the event that triggered the Maccabean Revolt and, eventually, the festival of Hanukkah. This bronze was struck at Samaria, a mint active under Seleucid administration in the southern Levant, placing it squarely within the most politically volatile decade of his reign.

The Samarian mint attribution rests on careful die study and find-spot correlation rather than any explicit mint mark.