Chalkon - Kankaros & Eglogistes

Apameia, the great Seleucid foundation on the Axios river in Macedonia, retained civic minting rights well into the Roman provincial period — an unusual continuity that reflects the city's negotiated status after Rome reorganized Macedonia as a province in 146 BC. The magistrate names Kankaros and Eglogistes appearing together on this issue place it within a system of dual civic officials responsible for bronze coinage, a practice documented across several Macedonian cities during this stretch. The HGC variety designation signals a die combination not fully catalogued in the standard corpus, making precise dating within the near-century span difficult to pin down.