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| Issuer | Olympia |
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| Year | 300 BC - 225 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | FA ΛY |
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| Mintage | ND (300 BC - 225 BC) |
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Olympia functioned as a sanctuary city rather than a conventional polis, and its bronze coinage was struck primarily to serve the enormous transactional volume generated by the Olympic Games and the continuous traffic of pilgrims visiting the sanctuary of Zeus. The Eleans administered the site and controlled minting authority, but the coins circulated within a fundamentally religious economy — votive purchases, sacrificial fees, and the commerce of tens of thousands of visitors arriving on a four-year cycle.
The BCD collection, assembled by a single anonymous European collector over decades, remains the definitive reference for Olympia bronzes; Lot 339.6 reflects the granular die study that distinguishes that catalog from earlier treatments.