Dichalkon - Molon

Molon was satrap of Media who revolted against Antiochus III in 222 BC, briefly seizing control of the eastern satrapies and even occupying Seleucia-on-the-Tigris before Antiochus personally led the campaign that crushed him. These bronzes were struck during that narrow window of Molon's autonomous control — coins issued by a man who very nearly fractured the Seleucid east permanently. When his forces collapsed in 220 BC, Molon killed himself rather than face capture. The issue's tight date range of roughly two years makes it one of the more historically compressed bronzes in the entire Seleucid series.