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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 25277340, member: 87809&quot;]In this post [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] mentions &quot;Chalcis by Belus, in Syria near Beroea&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/seleucids-elephants.409191/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/seleucids-elephants.409191/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/seleucids-elephants.409191/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Pliny the Elder in Natural History 1-11 says &quot;Below the deserts of Palmyra is the region of Stelendene, and Hierapolis, Beroea, and Chalcis, already mentioned.&quot; and Procopius in History of Wars says &quot;Chalcis, eighty-four stades distant from the city of Beroea,...&quot;</p><p><a href="https://topostext.org/place/360370UCha" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://topostext.org/place/360370UCha" rel="nofollow">https://topostext.org/place/360370UCha</a> and </p><p><a href="https://topostext.org/place/362372PBer" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://topostext.org/place/362372PBer" rel="nofollow">https://topostext.org/place/362372PBer</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps the BMC catalogue should say &quot;Chalcidice, Chalcis ad Belum (near Beroea)&quot;. </p><p>RPC III 3458 says that it is BMC 1-4 but none of these has the ending letters ΠΑΡΘ on the obverse legend, however, for BMC 2 the last letters are missing; thus it could only be BMC 2 Chalcidice, Chalcis (near Beroea)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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