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| Issuer | Olympia |
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| Year | 340 BC - 300 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | FA ΛY |
| Edge | Plain |
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Olympia functioned as a panhellenic sanctuary rather than a conventional polis, and its bronze coinage was issued to serve the enormous practical demands of the Olympic festival cycle — tens of thousands of pilgrims, merchants, and theoroi converging every four years required a local medium of exchange that sanctuaries elsewhere rarely needed to produce. The Eleans administered the site and controlled the mint, though the coins carried Olympian rather than Elean civic identity.
Issues from this period fall within the sanctuary's peak administrative authority, before Macedonian dominance reshaped festival politics across Greece.