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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Boiotia| > SH87858
Thebes, Boiotia, c. 368 - 364 B.C.
|Boiotia|, |Thebes,| |Boiotia,| |c.| |368| |-| |364| |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.
SH87858. Silver stater, BCD Boiotia 531; Hepworth 69; BMC Central p. 83, 154; SNG Cop 343; Head Boeotia p. 65; HGC 4 1332 (S), VF, toned, light marks, some porosity, Thebes mint, weight 12.554g, maximum diameter 20.9mm, die axis 210o, magistrate Klion, c. 368 - 364 B.C.; obverse Boeotian ox-hide shield; reverse ornate amphora, KΛ-IΩ divided across field below center, all within a shallow round incuse; ex Savoca Coins, silver auction 26, lot 161 ; scarce; SOLD




  







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