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Hemidrachm

Issuer Thessalian League
Year 470 BC - 460 BC
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Weight 2.81 g
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Obverse lettering Λ
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The Thessalian League coinage of this period reflects the confederation's attempt to project unified political identity at a time when most Thessalian cities still struck independently. Central minting authority was loose, and production was shared across member cities — which accounts for the stylistic variation visible across specimens sharing the same type reference. BCD 1006 sits in a cluster of dies attributed to the decade following Thessaly's forced collaboration with Xerxes during the Persian invasion, a political embarrassment the League was quietly working to move past.

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