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Drachm
| Issuer | Boeotian League |
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| Year | 225 BC - 171 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | Nike standing facing, head turned to left, holding a wreath in her extended right hand and a trident in her left hand, the latter attribute linking her iconographically to Poseidon on the obverse. To the left of the figure, a monogram appears above the Greek letter Xi (Ξ), serving as a magistrate or mint control mark. The ethnic legend ΒΟΙΩΤΩΝ is disposed around the field, identifying the issuing authority as the Boeotian League. The overall composition is characteristic of late Hellenistic federal coinage from central Greece. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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The Boeotian League's federal coinage operated under a rotating magistrate system, with individual city-states taking turns administering the mint — a arrangement that makes attributing specific issues to precise dates genuinely difficult. This drachm falls within a period when the League was navigating increasingly fraught relations with Macedon and, later, the encroaching power of Rome, culminating in the League's effective dissolution after backing Perseus of Macedon at Pydna in 168 BC.
The BCD collection, assembled by a single private collector over decades, remains the definitive reference for Boeotian federal issues precisely because no institutional collection achieved comparable depth in this series.