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| Issuer | Orchomenos of Arcadia |
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| Year | 350 BC - 300 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΟΡ |
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Orchomenos in Arcadia — distinct from the better-known Boeotian city of the same name — was a minor polis whose independent bronze coinage reflects the fragmented political geography of the central Peloponnese following the collapse of the Arcadian League after 362 BC. The League's failure at the Battle of Mantinea effectively ended any unified Arcadian monetary policy, leaving individual cities to issue their own small bronzes.
The BCD collection, assembled by a single anonymous European collector over decades, remains the primary reference corpus for Peloponnesian bronzes precisely because institutional collections largely ignored this material.