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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Boiotia| > SH69940
Thebes, Boiotia, Greece, 425 - 395 B.C.
|Boiotia|, |Thebes,| |Boiotia,| |Greece,| |425| |-| |395| |B.C.|, The largest city in Boeotia, leader of the Boeotian confederacy, and rival of Athens, Thebes sided with Persia during Xerxes' invasion in 480 B.C. Thebes ended Sparta's power at the Battle of Leuctra in 371. The Sacred Band of Thebes famously fell to Philip II at Chaeronea in 338. After a revolt in 335, Alexander the Great destroyed the city, except, according to tradition, the house of the poet Pindar.
SH69940. Silver stater, BCD Boiotia 437 - 438, SNG Cop 284, BMC Central p. 74, 58, Winterthur 1906; see CNG Sale 63, lot 316 for a similar countermark on an archaic stater, gVF, toned, porosity, Thebes mint, weight 11.674g, maximum diameter 20.5mm, die axis 0o, 425 - 395 B.C.; obverse Boiotian shield, countermark: ivy leaf in round punch; reverse Θ-E, bearded head of Dionysos right, wreathed in ivy; ex Heritage Auctions, auction 3031, lot 27032; SOLD




  






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