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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Tenedos (Troad) |
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| Year | 100 BC - 70 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Janiform (double-faced) head depicted in opposing profile: on the left, a laureate and bearded male head facing left, and on the right, a female head wearing a stephane facing right. The two jugate heads share a common neck, rendered in the Hellenistic artistic tradition characteristic of Tenedian coinage. The deeply struck relief and fine die-cutting reflect the skilled engraving of the late Republican period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Tenedos controlled one of the most strategically valuable straits in the ancient world — the approach to the Hellespont — and extracted considerable wealth from the maritime traffic passing through. These late tetradrachms, struck in the declining decades of autonomous island coinage, were produced as Pontic and later Roman power reshaped the Aegean's political order. The island formally came under Roman provincial administration during this same period, making the continued assertion of civic coinage a pointed act of institutional persistence.
Callataÿ's die study places this emission among the final substantial silver issues of the series, with a relatively restricted die count suggesting limited but deliberate production.