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Tetradrachm - Theopompus In the name of Alexander III
| Issuer | Chios (Ionia) |
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| Year | 190 BC - 165 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Chios |
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Chios issued Alexander-type tetradrachms under its own civic authority well into the second century BC, long after the Macedonian empire had fragmented. The magistrate name Theopompus — shared with the famous fourth-century historian from Chios — appears on a small group of these posthumous issues, though no connection to that family line has been established. By this period the Alexander tetradrachm had become effectively a trade currency across the Aegean, and Chios, as a significant commercial port with a long history of silver coinage, had both the infrastructure and the economic incentive to keep striking it.