CYCLADES. Tenos. Third Century B.C. AR didrachm. 6.92 gm. 22 mm. Rhodian standard. Laureate head of young Zeus Ammon, facing right / Poseidon standing left holding a trident with his left arm and hand and a dolphin in his outstretched right hand, a cluster of grapes in the field below his arm; THNI vertically in the field to the right. BMC Crete pg. 128, 7; SNG Cop 769. Good Very Fine; attractive old toning on good metal; well centered and fine style. Very Rare.
The portrait of Zeus-Ammon on this issue was modeled on Alexander the Great's posthumous portraits depicted on the coinage of Lysimachos.