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Æ17 - Nero ϹΙΔΗΤ
| Issuer | Side (Lycia et Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 65 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse description | Athena, the civic goddess of Side, advancing left in martial posture, holding an upright spear in her right hand and a pomegranate — the city's emblematic symbol — in her left. A round shield rests on her left shoulder, and a serpent rises beside her, a standard attribute in Side's Athena iconography. The abbreviated ethnic legend ϹΙΔΗΤ (of the Sidetans) appears in the field. The composition reflects the well-established reverse type of Side's autonomous and imperial bronze coinage. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Side was one of the most commercially active ports on the Pamphylian coast, and its civic bronze issues under Nero reflect a city confident enough in its own identity to mint without imperial portrait pressure — RPC I 3389 belongs to a local series that asserted civic autonomy even as Rome tightened provincial administration under Nero's later prefects. The city's magistrates, not Roman officials, controlled the type selection.
RPC I records multiple specimens with significant die axis variation, suggesting small-batch production runs rather than a single coordinated emission.