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Stater - Tenagure
| Issuer | Lycia, Dynasts of |
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| Year | 480 BC - 460 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse script | Lycian |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tenagure is among the least-documented of the early Lycian dynasts, his coinage known from only a handful of specimens and his political relationship to contemporaries like Kuprlli or Kherei a matter of ongoing scholarly dispute. Lycia during this period operated as a loose confederation of semi-independent rulers nominally under Achaemenid Persian suzerainty following Harpagus's conquest of the region around 540 BC — yet these dynasts struck their own silver with conspicuous autonomy, suggesting Persian administrative tolerance rather than tight fiscal control.
BMC Greek 83 places this stater within a small, closely related group. The die-work is hand-cut at a level consistent with a local workshop rather than a centralized mint.