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Drachm
| Issuer | Boeotian League |
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| Year | 225 BC - 171 BC |
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| Weight | 5.02 g |
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| Reverse description | Nike standing left in flowing drapery, her right arm resting upon a trident set to the ground and her left hand extended holding a wreath. The ethnic legend ΒΟΙΩΤΩΝ runs downward in the right field, while a monogram appears in the left field. The composition reflects the standard iconographic programme of the Boeotian federal drachm series of the late Hellenistic period. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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The Boeotian League's federal coinage was a deliberate political instrument — the shared types were a conscious assertion of regional identity against the encroachments of Macedonian influence and, later, Roman pressure. By the mid-second century, that pressure became terminal: Rome dissolved the League entirely following the Third Macedonian War, and Perseus's defeat at Pydna in 168 BC effectively ended federal Boeotian coin production within a few years of this issue's latest possible date.