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Dichalkon - Seleukos II Antioch
| Issuer | Seleucid Empire |
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| Year | 246 BC - 226 BC |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, depicted in three-quarter relief wearing a crested Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head, with detailed cheek guards and a prominent crest. The goddess's facial features are rendered in the Hellenistic style, with a strong profile characteristic of Seleucid bronze coinage of the period. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, with the type centrally placed within the field. Surface patination is consistent with ancient bronze, showing areas of earthen encrustation. No legend appears on the obverse. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Seleukos II inherited a fractured kingdom. His reign opened with the Third Syrian War against Ptolemy III, who sacked Antioch and briefly occupied the Seleucid heartland, and barely stabilized before the dynastic revolt of his own brother Antiochos Hierax split Asia Minor away entirely. Bronze coinage from Antioch during this period was struck continuously despite the administrative chaos — the mint was too central to suspend.
The SC1 692 attribution places this firmly within the Antioch civic bronze sequence. Specimens from this reign are not rare, but examples with crisp surfaces are harder to find than survival numbers alone suggest, likely due to the coarse bronze alloy used at Antioch in this decade.