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Drachm
| Issuer | Boeotian League |
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| Year | 225 BC - 171 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Thebes, Boeotia, modern-day Greece, Greece |
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The Boeotian League's federal coinage of this period was struck under the koinon's rotating magistrate system, with individual city-states taking turns at the mint — a practice that makes die studies particularly complex, as output varied dramatically depending on which polis held the issuing authority in a given year. The magistrate names appearing on these coins have allowed scholars to partially reconstruct the rotation sequence, though gaps remain.
The League was forcibly dissolved by Rome in 171 BC following Boeotian sympathy toward Perseus of Macedon in the Third Macedonian War, making that terminal date a hard political boundary rather than a gradual decline.