Æ26 - Domitian ΕΠΙ ΔΗΜΟϹΤΡΑΤΟΥ ϹΤΡΑΤΗΓΟϹ ϹΗΙΟϹ, ΖΜΥΡ

This provincial bronze was struck at Smyrna during the magistracy of Demostrates, whose name appears in the legend as strategos — the title used by civic magistrates responsible for authorizing local coinage under Roman oversight. The joint Chios-Smyrna legend is the genuinely interesting element here: it reflects a documented practice of homonoia coinage, where two cities issued coins together as a formal declaration of concord and mutual civic ties, a political gesture that carried real weight in the competitive honorific culture of the Aegean Greek cities under the Flavians.