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Stater - Hike
| Issuer | Thebes |
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| Year | 390 BC - 382 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Obverse description | Boeotian shield rendered in high relief, facing, with characteristic curved cutouts at left and right sides. The shield's distinctive double-curved outline and recessed arm-grip notches are clearly delineated, occupying virtually the entire flan. The surface of the shield boss is smooth and convex, contrasting with the flat inner field. The design is bold and schematic, typical of the Theban federal coinage of the early fourth century BC. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thebes struck these staters during a period of genuine military ascendancy — the city had emerged from the Corinthian War with enhanced prestige, and its cavalry-backed dominance over Boeotian affairs was being aggressively consolidated. The "Hike" issues belong to a magistrate-signed series in which individual officials took responsibility for specific emission groups, a practice that gives numismatists an unusually precise tool for sequencing Theban coinage of the early fourth century.
BCD 487 sits within a tightly documented run. Hepworth's die study identified recurring obverse dies across adjacent magistrate groups, suggesting continuous production rather than episodic striking.