Catalog
2 Siglos - Nikokles
| Issuer | Kingdom of Paphos |
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| Year | 325 BC - 312 BC |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | Π-ΒΑ |
| Reverse description | Apollo, laureate and nude save for a chlamys draped over his shoulders, seated to the left upon the omphalos. In his extended right hand he holds an arrow, while his left hand grasps a bow, its lower end resting upon the ground. To the left of the figure stands a laurel branch. The reverse field carries the royal legend ΝΙΚΟΚΛΕΟΥΣ ΠΑΦΙΟΝ in Greek, identifying the coin as an issue of Nikokles of Paphos, rendered in competent Hellenistic engraving. |
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Nikokles was the last king of Paphos, a city-kingdom on Cyprus whose rulers had long navigated the competing pressures of Persian overlordship and Greek cultural identity. His reign ended when Ptolemy I, consolidating control over Cyprus after the Wars of the Diadochi, compelled Nikokles to suicide around 309 BC — the entire royal family reportedly dying with him. The Paphian kingdom was dissolved outright, absorbed into Ptolemaic administration without a successor dynasty.
Siglos-weight silver from Paphos is scarce precisely because the mint's output was finite, bounded by a reign that ended by political extinction rather than natural succession.