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Tetradrachm - Alkimachos In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Chios (Ionia) |
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| Year | 190 BC - 165 BC |
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| Currency | Attic drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΠO ΑΛΚΙΜΑΧΟΣ (Translation: Alexander (III, the Great) Alkimachos) |
| Edge | Plain |
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Chios was among the more active minters of posthumous Alexanders in the late third and early second centuries BC, continuing to strike in Alexander's name long after his death as a matter of commercial convenience — the type was trusted across the eastern Mediterranean trade routes in a way local civic coinage was not. The magistrate name Alkimachos appears on a distinct subgroup within the Chian series, catalogued by Mavrogordato and refined by Price, placing production somewhere in the stretched window following the Roman settlement of Greek affairs after Apamea in 188 BC.