Tetradrachm - Nicias In the name of Alexander III

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.