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Didrachm Archaic type
| Issuer | Chios |
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| Year | 575 BC - 525 BC |
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| Value | 2 Drachms |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (575 BC - 525 BC) |
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Chios was among the earliest Aegean islands to adopt a silver coinage, and its archaic didrachms predate the widespread standardization of Greek weight systems — the island operated on its own local standard rather than aligning with the Euboic or Aeginetan systems dominant elsewhere. The sphinx type belongs to a period when civic identity on coinage was still being invented, not inherited.
GCV 3507 is a genuinely early attribution, placing this issue at the outer edge of what most scholars accept as organized Greek civic coinage.