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Drachm - Artemidoros
| Issuer | Chios (Ionia) |
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| Year | 133 BC - 88 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Upright amphora with pointed base and two handles depicted in bold relief at center, flanked on either side by the two-line Greek magistrate inscription. A grapevine with leaves and clusters of grapes encloses the entire composition, forming a wreath-like border that is characteristic of the Chian civic coinage of this period. The legend reading APTEMIΔΩPOΣ to the right and ΧΙΟΣ to the left identifies both the issuing city and the magistrate responsible for the emission. |
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Chios enjoyed an unusually privileged position under Roman administration after 84 BC, having remained loyal during the Mithridatic Wars while much of the Greek east defected. The island retained the right to strike its own silver coinage — a concession Rome granted sparingly. The magistrate name Artemidoros appearing on this issue places it within the autonomous civic series that continued operating through the upheaval of that period, with the Mavrogordato typology providing the primary organizational framework for what is otherwise a densely overlapping sequence of dies.