Dominating the plains north of Athens, the Boeotian league played an outsized role in Greek history from about 550 BC until it was dissolved by Rome in 171 BC. While it was composed of 11 regions each with dozens of smaller city states, the largest player initially was Thebes. That was until Alexander the Great brutally sacked the city and killed or enslaved all of its citizens. After the city’s reestablishment in 315 BC, the league changed and became much more democratic. As a result, Thebes no longer dominated. A shift demonstrated by the design on this particular coin. No longer did the league’s coinage display a Theban shield on the obverse. Instead it was relegated to a small device on the reverse.