bgr_276418 - BEOTIA - THEBES Hemidrachme
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Price : 350.00 €
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
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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.
Small straw on the Boeotian shield on the obverse. On the reverse of this example, we notice a tiny gamma in the left field above the first letter of the ethnic
Small straw on the Boeotian shield on the obverse. On the reverse of this example, we notice a tiny gamma in the left field above the first letter of the ethnic
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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