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Excerpt from The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, Vol. 15 Like those of the Aeginetans17 in the west of the Aegean, the commercial Operations of the Chians radi ated from Ionia in all directions, and even imposed their monetary standard on some of their customers. The importance of the Chian standard, which has lately been so ably demonstrated,18 made it the principal rival of the Aeginetic and the euboic-attic systems in the East up to the time of Alexander the Great. A little speculation as to its origin would perhaps not be misplaced before entering upon a detailed description of the coins themselves. 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.