bgr_226520 - BEOTIA - THEBES Hemidrachme
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 145.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 379-371
Mint name / Town : Béotie, Thèbes
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,65 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, centré des deux côtés. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Bouclier béotien.
Reverse
Reverse description : Canthare surmonté d’une massue posée horizontalement à droite.
Reverse legend : BO-IW
Reverse translation : (des Béotiens).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec les lettres BOIW, ce monnayage semble être fédéral et a parfois été donné à l’atelier de Thespies (BMC. 30-37). Le coin commence à se boucher au droit sur le bouclier.
Lightweight. With the letters BOIW, this coinage appears to be federal and was sometimes given to the Thespian mint (BMC. 30-37). The die is beginning to clog on the obverse of the shield.
Lightweight. With the letters BOIW, this coinage appears to be federal and was sometimes given to the Thespian mint (BMC. 30-37). The die is beginning to clog on the obverse of the shield.
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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