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Tetradrachm - Nicias In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Chios (Ionia) |
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| Year | 190 BC - 165 BC |
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| Value | Tetradrachm (4) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Posthumous Alexanders struck by Chios fall into a well-documented sequence tied to the island's commercial ambitions in the Aegean during the early second century BC. This piece, issued under the magistrate Nicias, belongs to a civic coinage program that Chios maintained independently even as Rhodian commercial dominance and shifting Seleucid-Roman rivalries reshaped the region's political economy. The island had sided with Rome against Antiochus III, and the settlement following Apamea in 188 BC left Chios in a relatively stable position — stable enough to sustain an active civic mint for decades afterward.
Price 2437 places this squarely in the later phase of the Chian series.