bgr_941547 - BEOTIA - THEBES Hemidrachme ou quart de statère
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Type : Hemidrachme ou quart de statère
Date: c. 395-340
Mint name / Town : Thèbes, Béotie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,54 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, légérement décentré au droit. Recouvert d’une jolie patine gris métallique avec des reflets doés
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. Coin légèrement bouché au revers sur la légende.
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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