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Obol
| Issuer | Tenedos (Troad) |
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| Year | 300 BC - 201 BC |
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| Reference(s) | CN type#19372 |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 201 BC) |
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Tenedos, the small Aegean island at the mouth of the Hellespont, controlled one of the most strategically valuable chokepoints in the ancient world — every ship moving between the Aegean and the Black Sea passed within sight of its harbor. That geographic leverage funded a remarkably sustained civic coinage program through the Hellenistic period, even as the island cycled through Macedonian, Ptolemaic, and eventually Rhodian spheres of influence.
At this fractional weight, the piece served local retail exchange rather than the long-distance grain and timber trade the island was known for facilitating.