Chalkon - Demetrios III Philopator

Demetrios III ruled a Seleucid realm already fractured beyond recovery — his reign of roughly two years saw him contending simultaneously with his brother Philip I for control of Syria, while also intervening in Judaea, where he briefly defeated Alexander Jannaeus at the Battle of Shechem in 88 BC. He ultimately died in Parthian captivity, kept alive as a useful political pawn rather than executed outright. Bronze issues from his reign are scarce relative to earlier Seleucid production, reflecting a mint system increasingly disrupted by civil conflict and shrinking territorial control.