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Stater - Onas
| Issuer | Thebes |
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| Year | 379 BC - 368 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thebes issued this stater during one of the most consequential decades in Greek history — the period immediately following the liberation of the Kadmeia in 379 BC, when a small group of Theban exiles expelled the Spartan garrison and triggered the city's rapid ascent to hegemonic power. The monetization accompanying Theban military expansion under Pelopidas and later Epaminondas required sustained coin production, and the Onas series sits squarely within that surge.
The magistrate name Onas appears on a narrow cluster of dies, suggesting a brief tenure rather than a long administrative cycle.