Chalkon - Athenaois

Chios maintained a remarkable degree of autonomy under Roman hegemony following the conclusion of the Third Macedonian War, and its bronze coinage continued largely uninterrupted — a privilege not extended to many Aegean island mints. The attribution to Mavrogordato's corpus, assembled from his landmark 1916 study of Chian coinage, remains the standard reference for this series despite over a century of subsequent scholarship failing to substantially revise his die groupings.