bgr_431169 - BEOTIA - THEBES Hemidrachme
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Price : 175.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 175.00 €
Type : Hemidrachme
Date: c. 425-379
Mint name / Town : Thèbes, Béotie
Metal : silver
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,50 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré. Joli bouclier au droit. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine de collection ancienne 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 : QE-BH.
Reverse translation : (des Thébains).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Le type de revers est peut-être à mettre en rapport avec le monnayage fédéral du même type avec la petite massue au-dessus du canthare (coll. BCD. n° 21).
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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