Thebes dominated Boeotian coinage politically as much as militarily, and the staters of this period were struck during decades of intense rivalry with Athens and Sparta — the city shifted alliances more than once during the Peloponnesian War, siding with Sparta against Athens before the relationship soured entirely at Coronea in 394 BC. The Boeotian League's coinage was federal in name but Theban in practice, the mint effectively controlled by whichever faction held the Cadmea.
BCD 440 places this emission within a closely sequenced die study; the Boeotian series is unusually well-documented precisely because BCD's collection was so deep in this material.
Thebes dominated Boeotian coinage politically as much as militarily, and the staters of this period were struck during decades of intense rivalry with Athens and Sparta — the city shifted alliances more than once during the Peloponnesian War, siding with Sparta against Athens before the relationship soured entirely at Coronea in 394 BC. The Boeotian League's coinage was federal in name but Theban in practice, the mint effectively controlled by whichever faction held the Cadmea.
BCD 440 places this emission within a closely sequenced die study; the Boeotian series is unusually well-documented precisely because BCD's collection was so deep in this material.