Chalkon - Ptolemy VI Philometor Cyprus

Ptolemy VI inherited the throne as a child under the regency of his mother Cleopatra I, and his reign was defined by near-constant pressure — a co-regency forced upon him by his younger brother Ptolemy VIII, an Seleucid invasion that briefly installed him as a puppet king in Memphis, and a Roman senatorial ultimatum that ended Antiochus IV's occupation of Egypt without a single battle. Cyprus mattered enormously to the Ptolemies as their primary source of copper, making local bronze issues like this one both economically practical and strategically loaded.