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Evelthon
Evelthon was king of Salamis in Cyprus in the 6th century BCE. He is credited with some of the island's earliest coins and, according to Herodotus, dedicated a censer at Delphi and refused Pheretime of Cyrene an army, giving her instead a golden spindle and distaff. His descendants ruled Salamis into the 5th century BCE.
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