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Excerpt from A Chronological Arrangement of the Coins of Chios Chios a free city of the Roman empire. No silver struck after accession of Augustus with one exception. Antiochus of Commagene. Poverty of the islanders after exile in Pontus. Cicero's visit to Chios. Foreign benefactors. Herod the Great. Increased variety of designs on coinage. New divisional silver piece. Innovations in type. Silver and bronze issues of the period. Points of style and fabric differentiating them from those attributed to last period. Magistrates who may have officiated both before and after exile in Pontus. Seymnus the geographer. Sphinx as emblem of the chthonic deities. Symbols and mint-marks. Prow versus bunch of grapes. Unique employment of the word xifln on a drachm. Roman names among the magistrates. Summary of weights of Attic drachms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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