Side, the prosperous Pamphylian port city, retained the right to strike local bronze under Nero as it had under Claudius before him — civic coinage that circulated alongside imperial issues without competing with Rome's fiscal machinery. The city's mint was among the more active in the region during this period, and the volume of references this type accumulates across major collections reflects genuine survival in numbers rather than collector inflation.
Side, the prosperous Pamphylian port city, retained the right to strike local bronze under Nero as it had under Claudius before him — civic coinage that circulated alongside imperial issues without competing with Rome's fiscal machinery. The city's mint was among the more active in the region during this period, and the volume of references this type accumulates across major collections reflects genuine survival in numbers rather than collector inflation.