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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Tenedos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 70 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Janiform (two-faced) head struck in high relief, presenting a laureate and bearded male head of Zeus facing left conjoined with a diademed female head of Hera facing right, the two deities back-to-back in the characteristic archaic style traditional to Tenedian coinage. The jugate effigies are rendered with careful detail, Zeus displaying a full beard and radiating laurel wreath, while Hera bears an elegant diadem befitting her divine status. The field is plain, focusing attention entirely on the bold janiform type. |
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| Mintage | ND (100 BC - 70 BC) |
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Tenedos, the small Aegean island at the mouth of the Hellespont, derived its economic relevance almost entirely from its position controlling traffic into the straits. Ships passing toward the Black Sea grain routes were legally required to stop, and the island's coinage — including this tetradrachm — circulated in that commercial milieu rather than through any significant local economy. By the late second century BC, the island had been passed between Pergamene and Roman spheres of influence, and the precise civic authority behind these later issues remains a matter of debate among specialists.