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Stater - 98th Olympiad
| Issuer | Olympia |
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| Year | 388 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse lettering | F – A |
| Edge | Plain |
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The 98th Olympiad fell in 388 BC, the same games at which Dionysius I of Syracuse sent envoys to recite his poetry to assembled crowds — they were jeered so badly that the episode became a standard ancient anecdote about the gap between political power and artistic merit. The festival's pan-Hellenic character made Olympia one of the few minting authorities whose coinage carried immediate recognition across the fragmented Greek world, issued specifically around the quadrennial games rather than as ongoing civic currency.
The BCD Olympia 94 reference places this piece within a tightly documented series from the sanctuary's own workshop, active in short bursts tied directly to festival cycles.