Paphos 2 Siglos - Nikokles, -325 – -312

2 Siglos - Nikokles from Paphos. Issued from -325 to -312. Struck in Silver. Measures 26 mm and weighs 21.29 g.

Obverse

Head of Aphrodite to left, wearing an elaborate tiara composed of a mural crown with four towers enclosing a polos ornamented with palmettes and annulets, a disc earring with a triple pendant and a pearl. Behind her neck the lettering Π-ΒΑ

Reverse

Apollo, wearing a laurel wreath and nude but for a cloak over his shoulders, seated left on omphalos, holding an arrow in his right hand and a bow, the bottom of which rests on the ground, in his left. To left, a laurel branch. (Nikokles Paphos)