First magistrate attested in Athens in 99/98 BC [issue 67]. Previously and later attested as third magistrate in Athens, in
100/99 BC [issue 65], and in 94/93 BC [issue 71]. From Eupyridai. Brother of his colleague Dionysios [issue 67]. Son of Athenobios,
one of the third magistrates of issue 38. He and his brother are attested as boys in the Delphian Pythais in 128/127 BC. Together
with their sister Philylla they have dedicated a statue of Chrysis, a priestess of Athena (IG II 2. ed. 3484). Being ephebe
in 117/116 (Habicht 1991, p. 11) or 118/117 BC (Mattingly 1997, p. 259) he held the magistracy at the age of c. 37: See M.
Thompson, The New Style Silver Coinage of Athens (1961) nos. 857-861, nos. 929-962, and nos. 1044-1046 / issues 65, 67 and
71 (p. 576); C. Habicht, Zu den Münzmagistraten der Silberprägung des Neuen Stils, Chiron 21, 1991, p. 5-6 and 11 (100/99,
98/97 and 94/93 BC); Prosopographia Attica 10754; P. M. Fraser – E. Matthews, A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names II Attica
(1994) p. 332 s. v. Niketes, no. 15; H. B. Mattingly and W. Leschhorn, Lexikon der Aufschriften auf griechischen Münzen II
(2009) p. 712 s. v. Niketes (99/98 BC, issue 67).
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