Tetradrachm - Krates

Chios maintained unusual monetary independence throughout the fourth century, continuing to strike substantial silver coinage even as Persian satrapial authority tightened across Ionia. The magistrate name Krates appears on a small cluster of dies within this series, placing production somewhere in the middle decades of the century when the island was navigating the competing pressures of the Second Athenian League and Achaemenid overlordship — a tension that eventually contributed to the Social War of 357–355 BC.

The Pixodarus reference situates this piece within a die study that remains the primary scholarly tool for sequencing Chian tetradrachms of this period.