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CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF THE COINS OF BCEOTIA. 181
Period. Circ. B.C.
Abandonment of all traces of the incuse
square.
VIII. 387-374. Peace of Antalcidas : Its effect in
Bceotia. Dissolution of the Boeotian
League, and establishment of oli-
garchies under Spartan patronage in
the various Boeotian cities. Seizure
of the Cadmeia by the Spartans, B.C.
382 its ; recovery, B.C. 379.
Coinage in this period at Chceroneia, &
and M, type, club ; Copce, -3t, 2E, half
bull, &c. ; Coroneia, 1R, Gorgon-head,
head of Athena; Haliartus, A\, Posei-
don Onchestius; Lebadeia, JB., thunder-
bolt ; Mycalessus, JR, thunderbolt, &c. ;
Orckomenus, 1R, horse, amphora, wheel,
corn wreath, ear of corn, &c., M, star ;
P/tarce, -3J, amphora ; Platcea, M, head
of Hera, M, head of Hera, bull, &c. ;
Tanagra, M, half-horse, half- galley,
&c. ; Thebes for Bceotia 'in genere,'
drachms with BO I, &c. ; Thespice,
JR, crescents, head of Aphrodite with
crescents, amphora with crescent ;
Un-
certain, archaistic, -31, with amphora
and various letters, A P, A I,
A II, H I, &c.
IX. 379-338. Thebes the leading State in Greece.
Age of Felopidas and Epaminondas.
Institution circ. 378 of a new federal
currency. The coinage signed by one
of the Bocotarchs (?) but not by the
eponymous archon of the League.