Live auction - bgr_409756 - BOEOTIA - BOEOTIAN LEAGUE Demi-statère

BOEOTIA - BOEOTIAN LEAGUE Demi-statère AU

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Estimate :	550 €
Price :	no bid
Maximum bid :	no bid
End of the sale :	13 December 2016 14:11:02

Type : Demi-statère

Date: c. 225-171 AC.

Mint name / Town : Thèbes

Metal : silver

Diameter : 18,5 mm

Orientation dies : 3 h.

Weight : 5,09 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Belle tête de Poséidon. Joli revers de style fin. Patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

BMC.99 - Delepierre1323 var. - GC.2404 - HGCS. 4/1175

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire a été acquis en juin 1986 et provient d’Art Antique (J.-P. Kimmel)

Obverse

Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.

Obverse description : Tête laurée de Poséidon à droite ; grènetis circulaire permé.

Reverse

Reverse description : Niké, debout à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et la stylis de la gauche.

Reverse legend : BOIWTWN/ (AN).

Reverse translation : (Des Béotiens).

Commentary

Sur notre exemplaire, le monogramme est légèrement différent et ne semble pas aussi complet que celui décrit dans le catalogue du British Museum (BMC 99).

Historical background

BOEOTIA - BOEOTIAN LEAGUE

(225-171 BC)

Thebes had been razed by Alexander the Great in 335 BC and its inhabitants massacred or sold as slaves. Thebes was rebuilt in 316 BC by Cassander, under Macedonian control. Demetrius Poliorcetes seized the city in 291 BC, which regained its independence at the fall of the epigone in 288 BC. Monetary production resumed in 221 BC. Thebes became the capital of the Boeotian League, formed after the proclamation of the Greek cities in 196 BC in Corinth by Flaminius. The League disappears when Boeotia is integrated and becomes a Roman province (Achaia).