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Drachm In the name of Alexander III

Issuer Chios (Ionia)
Year 290 BC - 275 BC
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Orientation Variable alignment ↺
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Reverse script Greek
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Edge Plain
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Following Alexander's death in 323 BC, numerous Ionian cities continued striking coinage in his name for decades — not out of loyalty to any successor, but because Alexandrine silver had become the dominant trade currency across the Aegean. Chios, a prosperous island city with deep commercial ties to the mainland, was among those mints that sustained the type well into the early third century. The Müller 307 attribution places this squarely within that post-mortem civic issue tradition, distinct from the royal Macedonian output.

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