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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Tegea |
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| Year | 100 BC - 75 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΕ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Tegea was one of the last Arcadian city-states to maintain an independent civic coinage, continuing to strike silver well after most of its neighbors had abandoned local issues in favor of Achaean League types or ceased minting altogether. This hemidrachm falls in the league's twilight decades, when Roman reorganization of Greece following the destruction of Corinth in 146 BC had fundamentally disrupted regional monetary networks. That Tegea persisted is notable — the city retained enough civic identity and commercial need to justify continued production into the final quarter of the second century.
The BCD Peloponnesos reference traces to the Brettauer-Cahn-Dewing collection lineage, making specimens with that pedigree traceable through some of the most rigorously documented Peloponnesian sales of the twentieth century.