The earliest coinage of Marion, situated on the north-western coast of the island, consists of silver shekels and thirds on the Cypriote weight standard, showing on the obverse a crouching lion and on the reverse the naked figure of Phrixos holding the left horn of a ram which runs left. The reverse legend 'Marieus' in Cypriot-Syllabic script guarantees the attribution of these coins to Marion, while the obverse inscription, in Cypriot-Syllabic script, '(of king) Sasmaos (son of) Doxandros', gives us the name of the king, Sasmas.
From a combination of overstrikes and hoard evidence we know the order of the reigns of the next two kings, Stasioikos I and Timocharis. The types on the silver shekels and thirds of Cypriote weight standard of Stasioikos I are on the obverse a laureate head of Apollo and on the reverse Europa suspended from the bull (Zeus in disguise); on both sides the legend in Cypriot-Syllabic script reads 'of king Stasioikos'. The types on the shekels of Timocharis are the same as those of his predecessor, and the legend on both sides of the coins reads 'of king Timocharis, Marieus'. His fractions (thirds, sixths and twelfths of a shekel) adopt the same iconography.
The last king of Marion
From literary evidence we know that the last king of Marion, Stasioikos II, was arrested in 312 by Ptolemy I of Egypt, that his city was destroyed and that its inhabitants were transported to Nea Paphos.
Before these events took place, the coinage of his reign incorporated many significant changes from the previous patterns of coinage at Marion. He was the first of its kings to issue gold coins in this kingdom, with a head of Zeus wearing a laurel wreath on the obverse and a head of Aphrodite wearing a myrtle wreath on the reverse, with inscriptions written in both Cypriot-Syllabic script and Greek letters. His silver coins (thirds and trihemiobols) bear the same types, but were issued on the 'Rhodian' weight standard. His obols show either the same obverse and reverse types, or bear a laureate head of Apollo (obv.) and an ankh with a double crossbar and the Cypriot-Syllabic sign sa within the ring (rev.). Finally, Stasioikos II issued bronze coins with the head of Aphrodite on the obverse and a thunderbolt or an ankh within a laurel wreath on the reverse.