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Hemidrachm Kleitor
| Issuer | Arcadian League |
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| Year | 460 BC - 450 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΡΚΑΔΙΚΟΝ |
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The Arcadian League coinage of the mid-fifth century BC represents one of the earliest experiments in federal Greek minting — member poleis surrendering independent monetary identity in favor of a shared federal type. Kleitor, a city in the northern Arkadian highlands, was among the contributing mints during this phase. The attribution to Kleitor specifically rests on die-linkage studies, most systematically by Williams, whose confederate coinage corpus remains the definitive sorting of these hemidrachms by producing city.
The League collapsed as a coining authority by roughly 450 BC when Sparta reasserted dominance over the region.