Siglos - Wroikos

Amathus was among the most stubbornly pro-Persian cities on Cyprus during the Ionian Revolt and its aftermath, resisting the broader Hellenic cultural pull that reshaped neighboring mints. This siglos — the name Wroikos likely identifying a local dynast otherwise poorly attested in the literary record — belongs to a period when Cypriot city-kingdoms operated with considerable monetary autonomy under Achaemenid suzerainty, issuing their own silver while nominally subordinate to Persia. The BMC Greek series documents very few specimens, and the dynastic attribution itself rests on limited epigraphic evidence.