Tetradrachm In the name of Alexander III

Salamis was the dominant city-kingdom on Cyprus during Alexander's campaign, and its ruler Nikokreon — who had allied with Alexander against the Persians — was among the first Cypriot dynasts authorized to strike in the Macedonian king's name. These issues belong to the earliest phase of that arrangement, produced while Alexander was still alive and campaigning east. Nikokreon would later be appointed by the Successors as strategos of all Cyprus, though he died before that role fully materialized, reportedly by his own hand during the wars of the Diadochi in 311 BC.