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years her will was law in every Boeotian town. Then
came the reaction. The carefully contrived conspiracy of
Pelopidas and his friends was completely successful ; the
Cadmeia was recovered ; the Spartans expelled ; and the
ancient institutions, at least in Thebes, were restored (B.C.
379 8). The other Bceotian towns remained in the hands
of the Spartans for some years longer, until the Thebans
under Pelopidas gained a victory over the Lacedaemonians,
B.C. 376, which enabled them to restore the ancient con-
federacy, and by the year
B.C. 374 Orchomenus was the
only Boeotian town not included in the League. This city,
the ancient rival of Thebes, remained faithful to Sparta
down to the battle of Leuctra, B.C. 371.
This period of disintegration, B.C. 387 374, has left
marked traces upon the coinage. At no other epoch in
the history of Boeotia can we point to such a variety of
coin-types, the issue of so many independent mints. The
BoDotian shield on the obverse is, however, still retained as
a matter of custom, rather perhaps than as the symbol of
actual union between the different Boeotian cities.
any
The following are the coins of the non-Theban mints
which, perhaps with a few exceptions, can only belong to
this period. The coinage of Thebes itself is less easily
distinguished, and will be discussed later on.
CHAERONEIA.
Henri-drachm.
36 grs.
Boeotian shield. X in two lines, between
A I. them a club r.
[Pro*. Ost., 1854, Taf. ii. 49.]
Bronze. Similar. 1 XAI
in two lines, be-
Size 4, Mion. I PflNE. tween them club
[Frok. Ost., 1. c. No. 50.]
Cbaeroueia, which was formerly included in the terri-