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MACEDON, Neapolis. Circa 500-480 BC. AR Stater (20.5mm, 8.47 g). Facing gorgoneion with protruding tongue / Quadripartite incuse square. AMNG III/2, 6; HGC 3, 583. Toned, minor marks, a little porosity, minor doubling at edge on obverse. Good VF. Well centered.
Neapolis, which is well known for its apparently large issues of silver in the 5th-early 4th centuries BC, is relatively unknown outside of numismatics. Its exact location is unknown, though a city that has been under excavation near modern Polychronon may be Neapolis. The city was likely founded as a settlement by colonists from Mende in the 6th century BC. Like many of the other cities in the region, Neapolis supplied troops and ships to Xerxes during the Greco-Persian Wars, and afterward became a member of the Delian League. Its coinage consists of two large series of silver coins, both featuring the facing head of a gorgoneion on the obverse. This coin belongs to the first series, with its simple quadripartite incuse reverse, began late in the Archaic period, circa 500 BC, and lasted until circa 480 BC.
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