Stater - Doxandros

Marion was a Cypriot city-kingdom whose silver coinage of the fifth century BC was produced under a dynastic naming convention unusual even by Cypro-Archaic standards — the magistrate or king's name appearing in the Cypriot syllabary, a script derived from the earlier Cypro-Minoan and entirely distinct from the Greek alphabet used elsewhere in the Aegean. Doxandros is attested as a ruler of Marion from this period, and the staters attributed to him form the foundational series of the city's coinage.

Cyprus at this moment sat between competing Persian and Greek spheres. Marion leaned toward Persia, a political alignment that shaped its economic relationships and likely its silver supply.