Les monnaies hellénistiques en argent de Tenedos

This paper gives the first die-study (86 tetradrachms and 31 drachms) for the silver Hellenistic coinage of Tenedus (Tenedos) with the types "Janiform's head/ Double axe". Tetradrachms have been struck with c. 25 obverse dies (there are 21 different obverses for 86 coins) and this is put into perspective with other mints of the mid-second century (Aegeae, Lebedus, Smyrna are less productive; Kyme and Myrina are by far more). The traditional dates given for this coinage ('after 189 BC' or '2nd-1st c. BC') are severely revised through the study of weights and overstrikes (on Thasian type tetradrachms). The bulk of this coinage looks to belong to the first decades of the 1st c. BC and a connection with the Mithridatic wars is not to be excluded.