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Hemidrachm Aigeira
| Issuer | Achaean League |
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| Year | 160 BC - 146 BC |
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| Diameter | 15.0 mm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΑΛ ΚΙ |
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The Achaean League's federal coinage was one of the ancient world's more deliberate monetary unification projects — member poleis surrendered independent silver issues in favor of this shared federal type, with Aigeira contributing hemidrachms during the League's final, increasingly desperate decades. By 146 BC, Rome had grown openly hostile to the League's political consolidation, and the conflict that ended with Lucius Mummius sacking Corinth also effectively terminated federal coinage production across the Peloponnesos entirely.
BCD 399 places this piece within the Aigeira civic emission sequence documented in the landmark Lanz auction of 2004, the most systematically organized dispersal of Achaean League material ever to appear at public sale.