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Stater
| Issuer | Neapolis (Campania) |
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| Year | 340 BC - 241 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG ANS |
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| Reverse description | Man-faced bull (the river-god Acheloos) walking to the right, depicted in profile with muscular body and raised foreleg, set upon a ground line. A small circle appears in the lower field beneath the bull. An ornamental element is visible above the bull's back. The ethnic legend ΝΕΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ appears in the exergue below the ground line in Greek characters, identifying the issuing city of Neapolis. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΝΕΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ |
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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.