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CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE OF THE COINS OF BCEOTIA. 183
Period. Circ. B.C.
JE, with OHBAIflN, probably of this
period.
XII. 288-244. Reconstruction of the Boeotian League.
Repulse of the Gauls (B.C. 278).
Alliance with the Acheeans. Inva-
sion of BoBotia by the JEtolians (B.C.
245). Failure of the Achaeans to
defend their allies. Bocotia turns for
protection to Macedon.
Coinage
of tetradrachms of the Attic
standard ; obv, head of Zeus, rev.
BOIflTjQN, Poseidon seated; M, head
of Pallas, rev. trophy ; head of Herakles,
rev. winged Pallas ;
rev. Apollo seated.
head of Dionysus,
XIII. 244-197. Boeotia subject to Macedon under An-
tigonus Gonatas, Demetrius II., and
Antigonus Doson (B.C. 244 221).
During this period Macedonian coins
current in Bceotia.
Accession of Philip V., B.C. 22O; his
policy of non-interference. Boaotia
adheres to the Macedonian alliance.
Wars with the Romans.
Coinage B.C. 220197, JB, head of Per-
sephone facing, rev. Poseidon standing;
M, similar types restruck on coins of
Antigonus Doson.
XIV. 197-146. Plamininus master of Thebes. He allows
the Boeotians to retain their freedom.
Boeotia sides first with Antiochus and
then with Perseus against Rome, but
again submits in B.C. 172. The