Chios was one of several Aegean mints that struck posthumous Alexanders well into the second century BC, continuing the type long after the Antigonid kingdom had consolidated its own coinage. The island's output from this period coincides with intensifying Roman pressure in the eastern Mediterranean — the same decades that saw the defeat of Antiochus III at Magnesia in 190 BC and the steady dismantling of Seleucid western ambitions. Price 2388 is distinguished by its control marks, which remain the primary tool for attributing these issues to Chios rather than to the dozen-odd contemporaneous mints producing near-identical types.
Chios was one of several Aegean mints that struck posthumous Alexanders well into the second century BC, continuing the type long after the Antigonid kingdom had consolidated its own coinage. The island's output from this period coincides with intensifying Roman pressure in the eastern Mediterranean — the same decades that saw the defeat of Antiochus III at Magnesia in 190 BC and the steady dismantling of Seleucid western ambitions. Price 2388 is distinguished by its control marks, which remain the primary tool for attributing these issues to Chios rather than to the dozen-odd contemporaneous mints producing near-identical types.