Stater

Neapolis (modern Kavala) was a Thasian colony functioning primarily as a trading port and transit point for silver coming out of the Pangaion mines inland. These staters circulated in a region where Thracian, Macedonian, and Greek commercial interests collided constantly, and the city's coinage served that cross-cultural exchange rather than any single political authority. The chronological window — roughly the two decades bracketing Xerxes' invasion of 480 BC — places these issues in active production just as Persian forces marched directly through the northern Aegean coast road that passed Neapolis itself.