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| Issuer | Neapolis (Macedon) |
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| Year | 424 BC - 350 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Draped bust of a local nymph facing right, her hair bound and rendered in fine parallel incised lines beneath a diadem or headband, in the classical Greek style. The partial ethnic inscription ΝΕΟΠΟ arcs around the upper field, identifying the issuing city of Neapolis. An uncertain symbol or control mark appears to the left of the bust in the field. The overall style is consistent with Macedonian civic bronze coinage of the fifth and fourth centuries BC. |
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| Mintage | ND (424 BC - 350 BC) |
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Neapolis — modern Kavala — was a Thasian colonial foundation that functioned primarily as the mainland port for Thasos, giving it an economic importance well beyond its modest size. The city sided with Athens during the Peloponnesian War and was rewarded for its loyalty, though that same loyalty made it a target during the Macedonian expansions of the fourth century that would eventually absorb it entirely under Philip II.
Small bronze fractions like this one entered circulation as the Greek world gradually accepted fiduciary bronze coinage from the mid-fifth century onward — a shift resisted longer in some regions than others.