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Hemidrachm - 131st-132nd Olympiad
| Issuer | Olympia |
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| Year | 256 BC - 252 BC |
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| Value | Hemidrachm (1/2) |
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| Mint | Olympia |
| Mintage | ND (256 BC - 252 BC) |
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Olympia issued coins not as a city-state but as a sanctuary authority, with the religious administration of the Altis controlling production. These hemidrachms were struck to serve the massive influx of pilgrims and traders attending the quadrennial Games, functioning as festival currency rather than instruments of regional commerce. The 131st–132nd Olympiad bracket places production squarely in the decade following the Chremonidean War, when Macedonian dominance over southern Greece was being aggressively reasserted after Athens and Sparta's failed coalition against Antigonus II Gonatas.