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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, the goddess of victory, standing left in flowing robes, resting with her left arm upon a trident and extending her right hand to hold a victor's wreath. The ethnic legend ΒΟΙΩΤΩΝ runs downward along the right field, while a magistrate's monogram appears in the left field. The composition reflects the Boeotian League's iconographic programme combining maritime and victory symbolism. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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The Boeotian League's federal coinage was produced cooperatively across member poleis, with individual cities rotating mint responsibilities — a monetary arrangement that makes precise attribution of specific dies to specific towns genuinely difficult. This series falls within the League's mature federal phase, after Thebes had been rebuilt and readmitted but before the Roman defeat of Perseus of Macedon in 168 BC effectively dismantled the political structures that sustained it. The BCD specimen bearing this reference sold as part of one of the most consequential Greek numismatic collections ever assembled, catalogued by Hans von Aulock's circle in the mid-twentieth century.