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Drachm

Issuer Boeotian League
Year 250 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Reverse script Greek
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Edge Plain
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The Boeotian League's federal coinage was among the earliest true federal issues in the Greek world — struck not by Thebes alone but on behalf of the koinon as a collective political body. By the mid-third century, Boeotia had rebuilt its federal structures after the catastrophic defeat at Chaeronea in 338 BC effectively ended its earlier military prominence, and these drachms circulated as much as political statements of renewed autonomy as they were trade currency.

BCD Boiotia 96 is a tightly defined reference point within a series where die linkage studies have proven essential to establishing sequence and chronology.

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