v36_0123 - BEOTIA - THEBES Statère
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 350.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 403.00 €
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 350.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 403.00 €
Type : Statère
Date: c. 425-400 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thèbes
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 11,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, ovale et irrégulier, décentré au droit avec une trace du revers en incus. Joli revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection P. Cooper, Glendining, 26 mai 1982, n° 21
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Bouclier béotien.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cratère (diota) ; dans le champ à gauche, un arc.
Reverse legend : Q-E
Commentary
Au revers, il s’agit bien d’un arc. Ce type avec les deux premières lettres de l’ethnique serait frappé entre la chute d’Athènes et la paix du grand Roi.
On the reverse, it is indeed a bow. This type with the first two letters of the ethnic would have been struck between the fall of Athens and the peace of the great King
On the reverse, it is indeed a bow. This type with the first two letters of the ethnic would have been struck between the fall of Athens and the peace of the great King
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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