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bgr_276418 - BEOTIA - THEBES Hemidrachme

BEOTIA - THEBES Hemidrachme XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 425-375 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thèbes, Béotie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,71 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Beau bouclier avec un petit défaut de frappe. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine de collection avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
BMC.-  - Cop.-  - B. traité-  - GC.2396 var. - Lockett1749 var
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Elsen

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Bouclier béotien.

Reverse

Reverse description : Canthare surmonté d’une massue posée horizontalement à droite.
Reverse legend : Q-EB/ G.
Reverse translation : (des Thébains).

Commentary

Petit paille sur le bouclier béotien au droit. Au revers sur cet exemplaire, nous remarquons un minuscule gamma dans le champ à gauche au-dessus de la première lettre de l’ethnique.

Historical background

BEOTIA - THEBES

(5th - 4th century BC)

Thebes was Athens' great rival. During the Peloponnesian War (431-404 AC.), she was an ally of Sparta. It dominated Greece, thanks to the strategist Epaminondas who, after the liberation of Thebes in 379 BC, successively triumphed over Sparta at Leuctra (371 AC.) and Corinth (369 AC.) before finding death at Mantinea (362 AC.). After this date, Philip II of Macedonia imposes his domination over Boeotia. Thebes was crushed in 338 BC at Chéronée where Alexander cut his teeth. The city is destroyed three years later.

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