Drachm

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.