The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

PERIOD XII. CIRC. B.C. 288244.
From this time the Boeotian League began to recon-
struct itself, and of the seven Boaotarchs, the representative
of Thebes appears to have been chosen as the archon
of the League.
Ten years afterwards (B.C. 278) we hear of the Boeotians
as taking an active part in the struggle with the
Gauls.
About B.C. 246 they entered into an alliance with the
Achaean League, but in the very next year the Aetolians
invaded Boeotia and gained a signal victory near Chae-
roneia, in which the Boeotians lost their general,
Aboeocritus or Amaeocritus, and a thousand men. They
were now compelled to ally themselves with their con-
querors, the Aetolians, but this did not prevent them
from being fallen upon by an armed band of Aetolians
while they were peacefully celebrating the festival of the
Pamboeotia in B.C. 244. This perfidious attack threw
Bceotia once more into the hands of the King of Macedon,
Antigonus Gonatas, to whom alone they could look for
protection against the Aetolians (B.C. 244).
The coins which on stylistic grounds seem to me to
belong to this interval of independence and autonomy
(B.C. 288 244), which was the free gift of Demetrius
Poliorcetes, are the following :