Hemidrachm

Tenos, one of the smaller Cycladic islands, produced coinage during this period in quantities modest enough that surviving specimens cluster almost exclusively in European institutional collections. The Boston MFA example is among the handful used to establish the type's chronology. Little is documented about the island's mint authority in the Archaic period, and the attribution to this two-decade window rests primarily on stylistic comparison with better-attested Cycladic issues rather than any hoard evidence specific to Tenos.