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Stater - Androkleidas
| Issuer | Thebes |
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| Year | 390 BC - 382 BC |
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| Weight | 12.19 g |
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| Obverse description | Boeotian shield depicted in high relief at center, its characteristic curved cutouts at left and right rendered with crisp, incuse detail. The convex boss of the shield dominates the field, surrounded by a raised circular border that closely follows the irregular flan. The design is boldly struck, emphasizing the three-dimensional form of the shield in the archaic Boeotian tradition. |
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| Reverse lettering | AN-ΔP |
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Androkleidas was among the Theban democrats exiled by Sparta following the oligarchic coup of 382 BC, when a Spartan garrison seized the Kadmeia by treachery during peacetime — an act so flagrantly illegal that even Sparta's allies condemned it. The staters issued under his magistracy therefore date to the brief window before that occupation, a period of aggressive Theban political consolidation following the Battle of Nemea and the inconclusive campaigns of Agesilaus in Boeotia.
The BCD specimen lot recorded two die combinations for this magistrate, suggesting limited but deliberate output.