Triton XIX, Lot: 2063. Estimate $20000. Sold for $27500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CYPRUS, Salamis. Nikokreon. Circa 331-310 BC. AV Stater (15.5mm, 8.28 g, 5h). Persian standard. Draped bust of Aphrodite left, hair rolled above forehead and falling in long wavy strands to front and back of shoulder, wearing turreted crown, triple-pendant earring, and beaded necklace; NI to right / Draped bust of male left, with long sideburn and hair in tight ringlets falling down back of neck, wearing crown decorated with semicircular plates, and torque; BA to right. Markou, L'or 442 (D3/R2 – this coin); Zapiti & Michaelidou –; Tziambazis 137; Boston MFA 2340 (same rev. die); Gulbenkian 814 = Jameson 2026; Hirsch 1617; de Luynes 2952 = Traité II 1188, pl. CXXIX, 10. Near EF, trace deposits on obverse, slight die rust on reverse. Extremely rare, one of six known staters of Nikokreon (note: Markou 440 and 441 are the same coin [Boston MFA 2340]).

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 443.

Nikokreon was the son of Pnytagoras, and continued using the same stater types as his father, simply replacing the name on the obverse. During the Diadoch Wars, Nikokreon allied himself to Ptolemy I against the Antigonids, for which the Egyptian ruler awarded him the title “General of the Island of Cyprus” in 312 BC. Nikokreon was the last of the Teucridai to rule in Salamis; upon his death in 310 BC, the city came under the rule of Ptolemy’s brother, Menelaos.