Drachm - Moschion

Chios maintained its independent coinage through much of the Hellenistic period by positioning itself carefully between competing powers. This issue falls within the final decades before Sulla's sack of Athens in 86 BC, when Roman military pressure was reshaping the Aegean economy and many island mints were struck hard by the disruptions of the First Mithridatic War. The magistrate name Moschion appears on this emission as the issuing authority responsible for the series.

Mavrogordato's 1918 classification remains the definitive reference for Chian coinage of this period, a study that has never been superseded.