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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Tenedos (Troad) |
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| Year | 100 BC - 70 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | A labrys (double-headed axe) dominates the central field, its handle flanked by a monogram to the left and a club to the left, with a bunch of grapes to the right of the handle. The legend ΤΕΝΕΔΙΩΝ arcs above, identifying the issuing city. The entire composition is enclosed within a laurel wreath, a framing device characteristic of late Hellenistic civic tetradrachms. |
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Tenedos occupied a small island at the mouth of the Hellespont, and its strategic position made it a toll-collection point for Aegean trade routes into the Black Sea — wealth enough to support a silver coinage well into the late Hellenistic period. By the time these tetradrachms were struck, the island had already passed through Athenian, Persian, and Macedonian hands. The Callataÿ reference gap signals this piece likely belongs to an unpublished die study or a transitional emission not yet fully catalogued in the corpus.