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Drachm
| Issuer | Tenos |
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| Year | 330 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Obverse description | Head of a youthful Dionysos facing right, wearing a wreath of ivy or vine leaves, with curling locks of hair visible around the face. The portrait is rendered in archaic-to-early classical Greek style, with the deity's features depicted in naturalistic relief typical of Cycladic island coinage of the late 4th century BC. The fields are plain and unadorned, with the image struck on an irregularly shaped flan characteristic of hammered ancient Greek coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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Tenos, a small Cycladic island best known in antiquity for its sanctuary of Poseidon and Amphitrite, produced coinage in very limited quantities — a direct reflection of its modest economic footprint relative to neighbors like Naxos or Paros. Issues attributed to this period remain rare in the numismatic record, with only a handful of specimens traceable to major collections. The Weber 4732 reference anchors this piece to one of the most rigorously documented private collections of Greek coinage assembled in the early twentieth century.