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Æ13 - Timocharis
| Issuer | Marion |
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| Year | 400 BC - 380 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek/Cyprosyllabic |
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Marion was a city-kingdom on the northwestern coast of Cyprus, one of the island's smaller dynastic mints, and Timocharis is among the least-documented of its rulers — his reign falling in the uncertain decades when Cyprus oscillated between Persian suzerainty and the ambitions of successive Greek powers. The island's city-kings were required to acknowledge Achaemenid overlordship following the failed Ionian Revolt, and coinage from this period reflects that uneasy compromise between local dynastic identity and imperial pressure.
Marion's mint output was never large, and bronze fractions from this reign survive in limited numbers across major collections.