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Stater - Tenagure
| Issuer | Lycia, Dynasts of |
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| Year | 460 BC - 420 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | A triskeles, its three bent legs radiating symmetrically from a central boss, enclosed within a beaded (pearl) border forming a circle. A dynastic monogram appears above the triskeles in the upper field. The entire design is set within a shallow, broad circular incuse square, typical of the hammered coinage of the Lycian dynasts of the fifth century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tenagure is among the lesser-documented dynasts of Lycia, active during a period when the region operated as a loose collection of semi-autonomous rulers nominally under Achaemenid Persian suzerainty. Persian administrative tolerance allowed these dynasts to strike their own coinage — a practical arrangement that funded local governance while keeping tribute flowing to Persepolis. The stater weight standard used here follows the Persic system, not the Aeginetan, reflecting that accommodation.
The Müseler corpus remains the primary scholarly framework for attributing these dynastic issues, many of which survive in only a handful of specimens.