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Stater - 107th Olympiad
| Issuer | Olympia |
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| Year | 352 BC |
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| Weight | 11.72 g |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck at Elis to commemorate the 107th Olympiad, this stater belongs to a series issued specifically in Olympic years — quadrennially — by the sanctuary administration at Olympia rather than by a civic mint in the conventional sense. The games of 352 BC fell during a period of sustained Macedonian expansion under Philip II, whose interference in Greek affairs was already reshaping the political arithmetic of the Peloponnese. Elis maintained formal control of the sanctuary throughout, but the pressures on that autonomy were mounting.
HGC 5#374 is among the better-documented types in the Olympic stater series, though die studies suggest output was deliberately limited to festival use.