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Stater - Asop
| Issuer | Thebes |
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| Year | 363 BC - 338 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | An amphora with volute handles rendered in fine detail, centrally placed within the field, featuring a beaded neck collar and decorated body with a low foot. To the left of the amphora appears the magistrate's inscription A above Ω, and to the right the letters Σ, identifying the Boeotian magistrate Asopos. A thyrsus or similar symbol appears to the lower right of the amphora. The entire design is contained within a plain circular border. |
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| Reverse lettering | A-Σ Ω |
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Thebes issued this stater during the period of Boeotian dominance that followed Epaminondas's crushing victory at Leuctra in 371 BC — a battle that ended Spartan land supremacy outright. The magistrate name Asop appearing on the reverse places production within the administrative machinery of a city then effectively leading a pan-Greek coalition. That political window closed violently in 338 BC at Chaeronea, where Philip II of Macedon destroyed the Sacred Band and ended Theban hegemony permanently.
Hepworth's classification of this type places it late in the series, after fabric and die-axis conventions had stabilized.