Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Stater - Krat
| Issuer | Thebes |
|---|---|
| Year | 363 BC - 338 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Kantharos (wine vessel) depicted facing, with two elegant volute handles rising above the rim, set at center of the field. To the left of the kantharos appears the magistrate's name divided across the field as KP to the left and AT to the right, forming the abbreviated name KRAT, identifying the responsible Theban official. The design is contained within a plain border and executed in fine relief typical of Theban silver stater coinage of the period. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | ND (363 BC - 338 BC) |
| Additional information |
Thebes issued coinage during a period when the city held genuine military supremacy over Greece — a window opened by Epaminondas's destruction of Spartan dominance at Leuctra in 371 BC and closed permanently at Chaeronea in 338 BC, when Philip II of Macedon effectively ended Theban power. The magistrate abbreviation "Krat" on this stater most likely references a sitting Boiotarch, the annually rotating federal magistracy that controlled both military and monetary authority in the Boiotian League.
The BCD collection remains the benchmark reference for Boiotian coinage; the "var." designation against both BCD 573 and SNG Copenhagen 344 suggests a die pairing not precisely duplicated in either corpus.