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Stater - Amphi
| Issuer | Thebes |
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| Year | 379 BC - 368 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Reverse description | A finely detailed amphora with volute handles depicted in the centre of the field, rendered with careful attention to its elegant form including decorated neck and splayed foot. The magistrate's name appears divided across the field to either side of the amphora, with the letters AM to the left and ΦI to the right. The entire design is set within a shallow concave circle, a hallmark of Theban coinage of this period, lending a distinctive incuse quality to the reverse type. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΜ-ΦΙ |
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This stater falls within the decade following the liberation of the Kadmeia in 379 BC, when a small group of Theban exiles recaptured their own citadel from the Spartan garrison that had occupied it since 382 BC. The political upheaval that followed — and the rapid militarization of the Boiotian League under Pelopidas and Epaminondas — demanded a functioning treasury. These issues funded that effort directly.
The magistrate abbreviation "Amphi" is among the better-documented of the Boiotian series, cross-referenced through the BCD collection's careful die-linkage work. Hepworth's classification remains the standard for this period.