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Tetradrachm - Eusebes In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Chios (Ionia) |
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| Year | 190 BC - 165 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ ΑΡ ΕΥΣΕΒΗΣ (Translation: Alexander (III, the Great) Eusebes) |
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| Mint | Chios |
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Chios entered the posthumous Alexander coinage tradition relatively late, striking these tetradrachms under the civic magistrate name Eusebes sometime in the early-to-mid second century BC. By this point the type had become essentially a trade currency convention across the eastern Aegean, and Chios — a prosperous mercantile island with established commercial ties to Rhodes and the Attalid kingdom — had practical reasons to issue coinage in a format universally accepted by merchants who might not trust purely civic issues. The magistrate name serves as the closest thing to a local fingerprint on an otherwise deliberately internationalized coin.