Dichalkon - Seleukos II Antioch

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.