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Stater - Wast
| Issuer | Thebes |
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| Year | 390 BC - 382 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (390 BC - 382 BC) |
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Thebes issued this stater during a period of sharp ascendancy in Greek interstate politics, roughly coinciding with the Boeotian League's consolidation of regional power in the years before Spartan intervention forcibly dissolved it. In 382 BC, a Spartan garrison seized the Cadmeia — the Theban acropolis — effectively ending the League's autonomy and suspending civic coinage. That political rupture gives this issue a hard terminus post quem that numismatists can set with unusual precision.
Hepworth 39 places this among the "Wast" group, a die-linked series identified by distinctive reverse characteristics distinguishing it from contemporary Theban output.