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Drachm
| Issuer | Tenedos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 70 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Tenedos |
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Tenedos, a small island at the mouth of the Hellespont, controlled strategically vital anchorage for vessels waiting on favorable winds into the Black Sea — a position that gave this otherwise minor polis an outsized economic role in the late Hellenistic period. By the time these drachms were struck, the island had long passed through Athenian, Persian, and Macedonian hands before settling into the Roman provincial orbit following Pompey's reorganization of the eastern Aegean.
The coinage of this period is notable for its conservatism, retaining iconographic traditions that elsewhere had been abandoned generations earlier.