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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Tanagra |
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| Year | 457 BC - 448 BC |
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| Weight | 2.75 g |
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| Obverse description | Boeotian shield rendered in high relief, depicted facing, with the characteristic double cutout indentations on either side of the central boss. The convex central boss rises prominently from the round body of the shield, framed by a plain rim. The design is boldly modeled and occupies nearly the full flan, consistent with the Archaic Greek tradition of Boeotian coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (457 BC - 448 BC) |
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Tanagra's coinage from this period falls directly between two catastrophic military events: the Athenian occupation of Boeotia following the Battle of Oenophyta in 457 BC, and the Boeotian recovery at Coroneia in 446 BC which ended Athenian control of the region. Whether Tanagra maintained any meaningful mint activity during the occupation itself remains contested — the city had, after all, sided with Sparta at the Battle of Tanagra in 457 BC just weeks before Oenophyta reversed the outcome entirely.