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2 Siglos - Nikokles
| Uitgever | Kingdom of Paphos |
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| Jaar | 325 BC - 312 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bust of Aphrodite facing left, her head adorned with an elaborate tiara comprising a mural crown surmounted by four towers enclosing a polos decorated with palmettes and annulets. She wears a disc earring with a triple pendant and a pearl. Behind the neck, in the field, the partial royal legend Π-ΒΑ in Greek characters, identifying the issuing authority. The portrait is rendered in fine Hellenistic style with careful attention to the goddess's divine regalia. |
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| Schrift keerzijde | Greek |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
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.