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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Messene |
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| Year | 125 BC - 100 BC |
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| Value | Hemidrachm (1/2) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Messene |
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Messene was a city with a complicated relationship to independence — founded only in 369 BC by Epaminondas after the Theban defeat of Sparta at Leuctra, explicitly to contain Spartan power by freeing the Helot population of Messenia. By the late second century BC, when this hemidrachm was struck, the city was navigating the increasingly suffocating orbit of Rome while nominally maintaining civic autonomy. The BCD Peloponnesos specimens at auction have consistently shown tight die linkages across the series, suggesting a modest but concentrated issue.