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Drachm
| Issuer | Aegina |
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| Year | 350 BC - 338 BC |
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| Diameter | 20 mm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Quadripartite incuse square divided into four triangular compartments by two diagonal raised ridges meeting at the center, creating the characteristic skew pattern of Aeginetan coinage. The Greek letter Nu (Ν) is placed in the upper-left compartment and Iota (Ι) in the upper-right compartment, forming part of the ethnic abbreviation. A small dolphin device occupies the lower-right compartment. The incuse is deeply struck and shows the typical hammered fabric of archaic and classical Greek monetary production. |
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Aegina's drachms from this late period carry the weight of a city-state in political freefall. Aegina had been stripped of its autonomy by Athens in 457 BC, its population expelled, and the island resettled with Athenian cleruchs — yet coinage resumed under Spartan sponsorship after 404 BC. By the 350s, Aegina was maneuvering between Macedonian expansion and the fracturing alliances of the Second Athenian League, which formally collapsed after the Social War of 357–355 BC.
The 338 BC terminus aligns with Chaeronea, after which Macedonian hegemony effectively ended independent Aeginetan monetary policy.