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Stater - Dio
| Issuer | Thebes |
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| Year | 390 BC - 382 BC |
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| Weight | 12.15 g |
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| Reverse description | A large amphora depicted facing, with elegantly scrolled handles rising above the vessel's shoulders, set within a concave incuse square or circle. The magistrate's name is divided across the field in Greek characters, with Δ to the lower left and IΩ (with a retrograde or cursive sigma variant) to the lower right of the amphora. The design is characteristic of the Theban federal coinage series attributing issues to individual magistrates responsible for the mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thebes struck these staters during a period of unusual political assertiveness — the city had recently broken Spartan dominance in the region and was rebuilding its federal authority over Boeotia after years of subordination following the King's Peace of 387 BC. The magistrate name Dio appearing on this issue helps anchor it within a narrow administrative window before the Spartan garrison seized the Cadmeia in 382 BC, an occupation that halted normal civic coinage entirely.
Hepworth's die study remains the essential reference for sequencing these magistrate issues.