Hemidrachm

Plataea's independent coinage was short-lived by necessity. The city had been razed by Thebes in 427 BC and its citizens expelled; it was only after the King's Peace of 387 BC that Plataea was formally re-established, with Spartan backing, and granted the conditions under which local coinage became possible again. The window closed brutally in 372 BC when Thebes destroyed the city a second time, this time more thoroughly.

The BCD Boiotia series documented these Plataian issues as genuinely scarce survivors of a mint active for no more than fifteen years between two catastrophes.