Chalkon - Metrokela

Apameia on the Orontes was one of the Seleucid empire's four Syrian capitals — the so-called Tetrapolis — and functioned as the kingdom's primary military depot and elephant station. After Rome assigned the region to Pergamon following the defeat of Antiochus III, and then again after Attalus III bequeathed Pergamon to Rome in 133 BC, civic bronze issues like this chalkon filled the gap left by retreating royal coinage. The city retained enough autonomy to strike its own small bronzes well into the late Republican period.

The HGC 7#674var designation signals a die or type deviation from the principal catalogued specimen — the exact nature unspecified, likely a magistrate name or control mark variant.