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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Tenos |
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| Year | 260 BC - 240 BC |
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| Weight | 13.90 g |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΤΗΝΙΩΝ |
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Tenos, a small Cycladic island, punched well above its weight in silver coinage during the mid-third century BC, likely tied to its sanctuary of Poseidon and Amphitrite — one of the more prominent cult sites in the Aegean and a destination for pan-Hellenic religious gatherings that would have generated real demand for local currency. The tetradrachm series attributed to this period is sparse enough that individual dies can often be tracked across the surviving corpus.
HGC 6, 727 places this issue within a tightly defined chronological bracket, though the precise triggers for Tenos minting at tetradrachm weight — rather than smaller fractions — remain debated among specialists in island coinage.