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Drachm
| Issuer | Mantinea (Arkadia) |
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| Year | 330 BC - 320 BC |
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| Weight | 5.14 g |
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| Reverse lettering | MANTI |
| Edge | Plain |
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Mantinea's coinage in this period carries a specific political weight. The city had been razed by Sparta in 385 BC and its population forcibly dispersed into four separate villages — a policy of *synoikismos* in reverse. When Alexander's reorganization of the Peloponnese allowed refoundation in 370 BC after the Spartan defeat at Leuktra, Mantinea resumed civic life and, with it, the right to strike silver. This drachm belongs to that restored polis, a city literally rebuilt from rubble within living memory of its destruction.