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Stater
| Issuer | Neapolis (Campania) |
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| Year | 340 BC - 241 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse description | Head of the nymph Parthenope facing right, with finely rendered hair swept back and secured with a beaded earring and elaborate coiffure adorned with a stephane. The portrait is executed in the refined Campanian Greek style, with delicate facial features and a naturalistic profile characteristic of fourth-century southern Italian coinage. The field is plain, with no legend on this side. |
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| Mint | Neapolis (modern Naples, Campania) |
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Neapolis (modern Naples) began striking its own silver coinage after breaking from Cumae and establishing itself as a major Greek emporium on the Campanian coast. The city maintained close ties with Greek poleis while navigating pressure from Samnite neighbors and, later, Roman expansion — a political balancing act reflected in the gradual Romanization of coin types across this very series. Following the Roman-Neapolitan treaty of 326 BC, the city retained minting rights as a civitas foederata, one of the few Italian Greek cities to do so. The SNG ANS corpus remains the primary reference for die studies of this long-running issue.