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Drachm
| Issuer | Boeotian League |
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| Year | 250 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΟΙΩΤΩN |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Boeotian League was a federalist experiment that predates most theoretical frameworks for confederate coinage — member poleis retained local identity while the League issued shared federal currency, a political arrangement that collapsed definitively after the Roman destruction of Thebes's rival Corinth in 146 BC forced Boeotia into provincial submission. By the mid-third century, the League had reasserted itself following Macedonian interference, and this drachm belongs to that period of recovered autonomy.
The Weber 3305 reference places this within a well-documented die study sequence.