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Tetradrachm
| Issuer | Tenedos |
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| Year | 100 BC - 70 BC |
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| Weight | 15.44 g |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΤΕΝΕΔΙΩΝ |
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Tenedos, the small Aegean island positioned at the entrance to the Hellespont, owed its historical significance almost entirely to geography — whoever controlled it could monitor or threaten traffic into the Propontis. By the time these tetradrachms were struck, the island had long since lost meaningful political independence, operating under varying degrees of Roman and earlier Attalid influence. The coinage itself belongs to a late civic bronze and silver tradition that Tenedos maintained partly as a matter of local identity, not commercial necessity.
HGC 6, 390 places these among the island's later silver issues, struck to the reduced Attic standard then common across Asia Minor's civic mints.