bgr_944002 - BEOTIA - THEBES Statère

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Type : Statère

Date: c. 425-400 AC.

Mint name / Town : Thèbes, Béotie

Metal : silver

Diameter : 21,5 mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 11,98 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie centrée. Flan court. Joli bouclier, bien venu à la frappe. Fine usure régulière. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

BMC.77 pl. 13/15 - Cop.- - B. traité- - HGCS. 4/

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Bouclier béotien.

Reverse

Reverse description : Cratère (diota) ; dans le champ à droite, une grappe de raisin.

Reverse legend : Q-E

Reverse translation : (Thèbes).

Commentary

Au revers, il s’agit bien d’une grappe de raisin à peine visible. Ce type avec les deux premières lettres de l’ethnique serait frappé avant la chute d’Athènes.

Historical background

BEOTIA - THEBES

(404-387 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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