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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Tenedos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 70 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | TENEΔIΩN |
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Tenedos was a small Aegean island whose strategic position at the entrance to the Hellespont gave it an economic importance well out of proportion to its size — controlling access to Black Sea trade meant the island could sustain a silver coinage long after comparable minor mints had gone quiet. By the late second century BC, however, the island was operating under the shadow of Roman provincial reorganization following the bequest of the Attalid kingdom in 133 BC, and local civic coinage of this weight and quality was becoming increasingly difficult to justify politically.
The HGC 6, 390 attribution places this among a relatively small group of late civic issues before Tenedos effectively ceased independent minting.