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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Boeotian League |
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| Year | 395 BC - 340 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse lettering | ΒΟΙ |
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| Mintage | ND (395 BC - 340 BC) |
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The Boeotian League's federal coinage was struck not by a single city but rotated among member poleis, each taking turns at production — a practice that makes die linkages across the series genuinely complex to untangle. This hemidrachm falls within the period bracketed by the Battle of Haliartus and the Social War, decades during which Boeotian political ambitions repeatedly collided with Spartan, then Athenian power.
The BCD collection reference is significant here: Lew Brice's Boiotia holdings, dispersed at auction in 2008, remain the benchmark grouping against which specimens in this series are still measured.