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Stater
| Issuer | Tanagra |
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| Year | 457 BC - 448 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Reverse description | A horse in a recumbent or kneeling posture facing left, rendered within a shallow incuse square with slightly raised borders. The horse is depicted in a lively, naturalistic style characteristic of early classical Boeotian coinage, with its head raised and neck arched, forelegs bent beneath the body. The ethnic inscription T-A flanks the horse, with T to the upper left and A to the upper right of the field, identifying the issuing city of Tanagra. The incuse square provides a contrasting sunken field against which the relief of the horse is clearly defined. |
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| Mintage | ND (457 BC - 448 BC) |
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Tanagra's coinage falls within the decade bracketed by two military catastrophes for Boeotia: the Athenian victory at Oenophyta in 457 BC, which placed much of the region under Athenian control for roughly a decade, and the Battle of Coronea in 447 BC, after which Athens lost its grip on the area entirely. This stater was struck, in other words, by a polis operating under Athenian hegemony — an uncomfortable political circumstance that makes the continued assertion of local coinage notable.
The BCD collection reference anchors this piece to one of the most rigorously documented Boeotian series in modern scholarship, assembled by a single collector over decades and sold at Leu in 2008.