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Stater
| Issuer | Thebes |
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| Year | 405 BC - 395 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | Θ Ε |
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These Theban staters were struck in the decade following the catastrophic Athenian defeat at Aegospotami in 405 BC, a moment that fundamentally redistributed power across the Greek world. Thebes, long subordinate to Spartan hegemony despite fighting alongside her at the close of the Peloponnesian War, used this period to consolidate influence across the Boiotian League — coinage being one instrument of that assertion.
The BCD Boiotia reference places this piece among a tightly catalogued sequence from the Theban mint, cross-confirmed by the Jameson and BMC numbers. The 11.97g weight sits precisely on the Aiginetan standard, which Boiotian cities maintained with unusual consistency through the fifth century.