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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Greece| > |Boiotia| > GS92209
Thespiai, Boiotia, Greece, Early 4th Century B.C.
|Boiotia|, |Thespiai,| |Boiotia,| |Greece,| |Early| |4th| |Century| |B.C.|, Thespiae stood on level ground commanded by the low range of hills which run eastward from the foot of Mount Helicon to Thebes, near modern Thespies. During the Hellenistic Period, Thespiae sought the friendship of the Roman Republic in the war against Mithridates VI. It is subsequently mentioned by Strabo as a place of some size, and by Pliny as a free city within the Roman Empire, a reward for its support against Mithridates. Thespiae hosted an important group of Roman negotiatores until the refoundation of Corinth in 44 B.C.
GS92209. Silver obol, BCD Boiotia 599; SNG Lockett 1763; SNG Cop 401; SNG Berry 606; BMC Central p. 90, 4; HGC 4 1402, VF, light toning, Thespiai (near Thespies, Greece) mint, weight 0.780g, maximum diameter 10.0mm, early 4th century B.C.; obverse Boiotian ox-hide shield; reverse ΘΕΣ (bottom stroke on Σ missing), ethnic above and within crescent with horns upward and composed of three lines, all within a shallow round incuse; ex Ancient Imports (Marc Breitsprecher), ex BCD Collection; scarce; SOLD











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