Stater - Anti

The magistrate name "Anti" — abbreviated on the coin — is generally read as Antimenidas or a similar Theban official active in the decade following the Corinthian War. These years were politically volatile for Boeotia: Spartan intervention culminated in 382 BC when a Spartan garrison seized the Kadmeia, the citadel of Thebes, effectively ending Boeotian League coinage until the city's liberation in 379 BC. This stater was almost certainly struck before that occupation, making the narrow eight-year window a hard terminus ante quem.