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Æ9 - Timocharis
| Issuer | Marion |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Forepart of a lion's head facing right with open jaws, rendered in a bold, archaic style characteristic of Cypriot bronze coinage. Cypriot syllabic inscription (pa-sa-) appears in the field, identifying the issuing authority in the indigenous script of ancient Cyprus. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Marion was a Greek city-state on the northwestern coast of Cyprus, eventually destroyed by Ptolemy I around 312 BC as punishment for its pro-Persian sympathies during his campaign to control the island. This tiny bronze, issued under the magistrate Timocharis, belongs to the autonomous civic coinage produced before that destruction — after which the site was abandoned and its population forcibly relocated to Paphos.