bgr_293885 - BEOTIA - THEBES Statère
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 650.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Statère
Date: c. 364-362 AC.
Mint name / Town : Thèbes, Béotie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 12,05 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, un peu court sur le bouclier à l’usure régulière. Très joli revers avec les détails du cratère visibles, avec un nom historiquement important. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
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Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Bouclier béotien.
Reverse
Reverse description : Cratère (diota) .
Reverse legend : [E]P-PA
Reverse translation : (Epaminondas).
Commentary
Au droit, le coin commence à se boucher. Ce statère est attribuée à Epaminondas qui trouva la mort à la bataille de Mantinée en 362 avant J.-C .
On the obverse, the die is beginning to fill. This stater is attributed to Epaminondas who died at the Battle of Mantinea in 362 BC.
On the obverse, the die is beginning to fill. This stater is attributed to Epaminondas who died at the Battle of Mantinea in 362 BC.
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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