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| Issuer | Boione |
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| Year | 400 BC - 300 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Bull standing right in profile, depicted with compact, muscular form typical of Boiotian bronze coinage of the fourth century BC. The animal's head is slightly lowered, with legs firmly planted on a plain ground line. The ethnic legend BOIΩNTIKΩN is inscribed above the bull in Greek characters, identifying the issuing community. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Boione was a minor Thessalian community whose autonomous bronze coinage appears only within a narrow window — likely the fourth century BC — before the region's political fragmentation was subsumed by Macedonian expansion under Philip II. Small civic bronzes of this type rarely traveled far, and most known examples come from regional hoards rather than trade contexts, suggesting purely local economic use.