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Chalkon - Athenaois
| Issuer | Chios |
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| Year | 190 BC - 84 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Sphinx seated to the right in profile, depicted in the characteristic archaic style of Chios coinage, with wings folded against its body. A bunch of grapes is positioned before the sphinx in the right field, referencing the island's famed viticulture. The overall fabric is irregular, typical of hammered bronze issues of the Hellenistic period. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Chios maintained a remarkable degree of autonomy under Roman hegemony following the conclusion of the Third Macedonian War, and its bronze coinage continued largely uninterrupted — a privilege not extended to many Aegean island mints. The attribution to Mavrogordato's corpus, assembled from his landmark 1916 study of Chian coinage, remains the standard reference for this series despite over a century of subsequent scholarship failing to substantially revise his die groupings.