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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8291288, member: 26430&quot;]Great Theban Stater! And, is that Achaean League above?</p><p>I had one that would satisfy both prompts (thumbnail is a Boeotian League AE), but I&#039;ll go with the Stater below...</p><p>[ATTACH]1465691[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1465689[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><b><font face="Georgia">Greek (Classical). Boeotia, Thebes AR Stater (12.08g, 22mm, 5h). Magistrate Theog-, struck 379 – 368 BCE.</font></b></p><p><b><font face="Georgia">Obv</font></b><font face="Georgia">: Boeotian shield.</font></p><p><b><font face="Georgia">Rev</font></b><font face="Georgia">: ΘΕ-ΟΓ. Amphora with tall ornate handles, its upper half decorated with fluting above two horizontal bands &amp; narrow “ankle&quot;/base; above, caduceus (kerykeion) right; all within shallow incuse concave circle. Graffito upper left: </font><font face="Arial">Ξ</font><font face="Georgia">.</font></p><p><b><font face="Georgia">Ref</font></b><font face="Georgia">: BCD Boiotia 502 (same dies); Hepworth 57. Cited incorrectly in Nomos Obolos 16 as BCD 503 [caduceus left]; see also <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4951232" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4951232" rel="nofollow">CNG EA 420 (9 May 2018), Lot 217</a> (corr., cited incorrectly as BCD 546; same rev. die).</font></p><p><b><font face="Georgia">Prov</font></b><font face="Georgia">: Ex-</font><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7396373" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7396373" rel="nofollow"><font face="Georgia">Nomos Obolos 16 (Zurich, 11 Oct 2020), Lot 742</font></a><font face="Georgia"> (Corr., BCD No.).</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><b>Notes</b>: Without context, it’s unclear what the graffito means. The usual interpretation is the first initial of the owner&#039;s name. For similar graffito in a small hoard of Boeotian Theban staters, interpreted as the religious dedication of a &quot;tithe&quot; of spoils, see Liampi (2008, <i>AJN</i>) &quot;<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580312" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43580312" rel="nofollow">NIKA, ΛEIA: Graffiti on Sicyonian and Theban Staters in a New Hoard from Boeotia / Beginning of 2000</a>.&quot;</font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia">BCD Boiotia 502 (Triton IX), commented on an example of the same dies:</font></p><blockquote><p><font face="Georgia">&quot;The reverse dies of this magistrate ... are of particularly high quality artwork according to Hepworth, p. 64, 14. This is understandable, given that they were issued immediately after the Spartan yoke was lifted off the Kadmeia. It was the time when Thebes was looking forward to the increasing military power and political assertion in the area that came with independence and which led to the glorious years of Epaminondas&#039; heyday.&quot;</font></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="6">NEXT: Another coin with notably high relief. <i>Something thick!</i></font></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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