Hippokrates Autokrator Nikephoros

Hippokrates Autokrator Nikephoros was a king with a Greek name only known for sure from a coin in a private collection. His name is partly reconstructed. The first name Hippokrates is not fully preserved on the coin. Only pokrates is still visible.[1] His known coin is a tetradrachm, showing the head of the king. The portrait resembles that of the Seleucic king Seleucus VI Epiphanes Nikator (c. 96–94 BC). On the reverse of the coin is shown Zeus sitting on the throne. The coin is dated to year 81/80 BC, according to the Seleucid era. Hippokrates Autokrator Nikephoros is perhaps also known from a coin of Kamnaskires III and Anzaze, that overstruck a coin of that king. A similar overstrike is known from a coin of Characene king Tiraios II.

The exact position of Hippokrates Autokrator Nikephoros is not known. The style of his coins is different to those of the Elymais making is unlikely that he was a king there. His name Autokrator might indicator that he was an usurpator, as it was often used by such. He might have ruled in Charakene as the overstrike of Tiraios II indicates.

References
  1. G. R. F. Assar: "A New Hellenistic Ruler from Early 1st Century BC: King [Hip]pokrates Autokrator Nikephoros", in: Portraits: 400 Years of Hellenistic Portraits/400 Jahre hellenistische Portraits. Staatliche Münzsammlung München. Editor/Herausgeber: Dr. Andreas Pangerl. Publisher: Verlag: Staatliche Münzsammlung München, Munich 2020. ISBN 978-3-922840-41-1, pp. 339–343
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