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Coin Type: Silver stater of Thebes in Boeotia Mint and Date: Thebes, c. 425-400 BCE. Size and Weight: 18mm x 24mm, 8.63g Obverse: Boeotian shield. Reverse: Volute krater with a bunch of grapes to the left. Θ E across fields. Provenance: lavenderblue24 (eBay), February 2010 Ref: See Myron Hoard pl. B, 29-30 BW Ref: 001 047 153 |
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Note: This coin is too light for a normal stater, at about 2/3 of the normal weight. But this weight does not match any known demonination, and the design is that of a stater. It shows considerable porosity. I will treat this as an unusually light, internally eroded stater, with a large question mark as a possible fake, until proven one way or the other. | |
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