Hemidrachm - 106th-107th Olympiad

These hemidrachms were struck at Olympia during a period when the sanctuary of Zeus was under Pisatan administration — a politically charged arrangement that saw control of the games wrested from Elis more than once across the classical period. The 104th Olympiad had marked one such disruption, and the issues tied to the 106th and 107th fall in the tense interval before Elis reasserted dominance. Olympia struck its own coinage sporadically and only in connection with sanctuary administration, making each identifiable emission small in volume and genuinely scarce.