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Drachm
| Issuer | Boeotian League |
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| Year | 250 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Poseidon (or Zeus) stands nude in the field, facing slightly left, holding a long trident upright in his right hand and extending his left arm outward. The deity is rendered in a vigorous, athletic pose typical of Hellenistic divine imagery. To the lower right, the Boeotian shield symbol and a monogram or control mark (delta) appear in the field. The retrograde Greek legend ΒΟΙΩΤΩΝ runs vertically along the left side of the design. |
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| Mintage | ND (-250) |
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The Boeotian League operated as a federal state with rotating hegemony among its member cities — Thebes, though ruined by Alexander in 335 BC, remained symbolically central to League coinage long after losing its political primacy. By the mid-third century, the League had reconstituted itself under Macedonian shadow, issuing federal silver that circulated across a confederation still negotiating its autonomy between larger Hellenistic powers.
The BCD collection reference here is significant: that hoard-and-collection corpus remains the definitive die study for Boeotian federal coinage, and pieces traceable through both BCD and the Lockett provenance carry some of the strongest documentation chains in the series.