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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Tegea |
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| Year | 100 BC - 1 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mint | Tegea |
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Tegea was one of the most politically stubborn poleis in Arkadia — it resisted absorption into the Achaean League longer than most of its neighbors and maintained a distinct civic identity well into the Roman provincial period. This hemidrachm belongs to a late series produced after Rome's reorganization of Greece following the sack of Corinth in 146 BC, when many Peloponnesian mints fell silent entirely. That Tegea continued issuing silver at all is noteworthy; most cities of comparable size abandoned autonomous coinage under Roman administrative pressure.
The BCD reference places this among a carefully sequenced group studied from the Bcd collection, the definitive assemblage for Peloponnesian bronzes and silver of this period.