Stater

Theban staters of this period were struck under the shadow of persistent Spartan dominance over Boeotia — the region's poleis had been forced into a Spartan-aligned league following the Peace of Nicias in 421 BC, and local coinage served partly as an assertion of Boeotian federal identity when political autonomy was constrained. The Theban mint was not the sole producer of Boeotian federal coinage; Tanagra, Orchomenos, and others struck under the same federal types, which complicates attribution without die-study confirmation.

The Nanteuil reference without a BCD Boiotia number suggests this piece either falls outside the main die sequences Hepworth and others catalogued, or represents an unpublished obverse-reverse pairing.