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Æ23
| Issuer | Tanagra |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | The ethnic abbreviation TAN incuse in large, deeply impressed Greek letters, set within a broad concave depression with a curved, almost circular boundary. The three letters are boldly rendered in a primitive archaic Greek lapidary style, filling the recessed field symmetrically. The incuse technique imparts a striking relief contrast between the raised letter forms and the surrounding depressed area. The plain field beyond the incuse square shows the natural irregular surface of the cast bronze flan. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΤΑΝ |
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Tanagra's bronze coinage of this period reflects the city's position within the Boeotian League — politically subordinate to Thebes for much of the fourth century, yet maintaining a distinct civic identity in its local issues. The League's dominance over Boeotian affairs was shattered at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC, and the subsequent decade saw considerable flux in which member cities exercised meaningful autonomy. Whether this piece predates or postdates that rupture places it in meaningfully different political circumstances, and the date range assigned here spans both.
BCD Boiotia 307 corresponds to the collection of a single anonymous Belgian collector whose holdings constituted the most important private assembly of Boeotian coinage ever sold at auction, dispersed by Lanz Munich in 2002.