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Dichalkon
| Issuer | Olympia |
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| Year | 225 BC - 191 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΗΛΑ |
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| Mint | Olympia |
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Issued by the sanctuary administration at Olympia rather than any civic authority, this bronze circulated primarily within the festival economy of the Games — a closed commercial environment where pilgrims, vendors, and sacrificial traders needed small-denomination exchange. The Eleans controlled the sanctuary but Olympia itself occasionally struck under its own name, a distinction that mattered politically to the communities of the western Peloponnese.
Production likely concentrated in the intervals between Olympiads, with dies prepared in anticipation of the quadrennial influx.