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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8245842, member: 26430&quot;]Not sure exactly where mine fits -- it&#039;s a BCD 502 (but with the ornate handled-amphora of a 503) -- usually dated ca. 379-368 BCE (overlapping the c. 371 BCE battle of Leuktra I think), but at least once I&#039;ve seen them dated later (363-338 BCE). It&#039;s one of the many areas I need to learn more about! (Sometimes I accumulate faster than I read!)</p><p><br /></p><p>Wish it was better centered (one type where I actually prefer a compact flan) but I could accept the broad flan with a lovely amphora:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452112[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1452113[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>PHOTO CREDIT: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7396373" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7396373" rel="nofollow">Nomos Web-Auction 16</a>. ~22mm, 12.08g.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>I do have a later little bronze that&#039;s reportedly from the Boeotia Federal Coinage (it came with BCD&#039;s tag but unfortunately haven&#039;t photographed them together yet):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452119[/ATTACH]</p><p><i>PHOTO CREDIT: <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8181333" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=8181333" rel="nofollow">Kolner e-7, lot 16</a>. ~14-15mm, 1.64 g. ca. 338-300 BCE.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>FWIW, on the topic of Confederacy / Federation in Boeotia I&#039;ve been Googling around a bit blindly, but have been working through a pair of non-numismatic papers avail. online (one is in a Festschrift, the other translated from an Italian conference proceedings I believe).</p><blockquote><p>&quot;<a href="https://www.academia.edu/8377242/Hans_Beck_Thebes_the_Boiotian_League_and_the_Rise_of_Federalism_in_Fourth_Century_Greece" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/8377242/Hans_Beck_Thebes_the_Boiotian_League_and_the_Rise_of_Federalism_in_Fourth_Century_Greece" rel="nofollow">Thebes, the Boiotian League, and the Rise of Federalismin Fourth Century Greece</a>,&quot; by Hans Beck (1997/2000/n.d.):</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<a href="https://www.academia.edu/43128897/Poleis_and_Confederacy_in_Boiotia_in_the_Early_Fourth_Century_BC" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.academia.edu/43128897/Poleis_and_Confederacy_in_Boiotia_in_the_Early_Fourth_Century_BC" rel="nofollow">Poleis and Confederacy in Boiotia in the Early Fourth Century BC</a>,&quot; by J. Pascual (2006):</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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