Drachm

Tenedos, the small Aegean island positioned at the mouth of the Hellespont, maintained its own coinage long after most comparable island communities had been absorbed into larger monetary systems — a function of its strategic value as a waystation for ships navigating between the Aegean and the Black Sea. By the late second century BC, the island was nominally under Pergamene and then Roman influence, yet continued striking its own silver.

The SNG Berry and Hart references both draw from mid-twentieth-century collection dispersals, and the tight die grouping across those three catalog numbers suggests a concentrated production run rather than continuous output across the full quarter-century span.