The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

IHEOTIA. PERIOD IX. CIRC. B.C. 379 338. 239
ment of the new BoGotarchs, Pelopidas, Mellon, and Charon,
in B.C. 379 8, the reconstitution of the League com-
menced, and by the year B.C. 374 it was again generally
recognised throughout Boeotia, excepting at Orchomenus.
The year of the restoration of the old order by Pelopidas
and his friends, B.C. 379 8, seems therefore to be the
date when the new federal money was first issued, and the
fact that it does not bear the name of Thebes is an addi-
tional argument for its having originated at a time when
the Theban authority was not generally recognised by
the other cities.
That there is a difference in style and palaeography
between the earliest and latest specimens of this long
series of didrachms is indisputable. By patient and pro-
longed study and comparison of minute points of detail,
one might even arrive, perhaps, at an approximately correct
chronological classification of the whole series. This, however,
is a task which it is hardly worth while to undertake.
I proceed, therefore, to give a list of all the names on this
class with which I am acquainted, arranged in alphabetical
order :
Obv. Boeotian shield. | Rev. Amphora,
NAME.
in concave field.