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Obol
| Issuer | Side |
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| Year | 420 BC - 360 BC |
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| Value | Obol (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a Corinthian-style helmet pushed back on the head, with a prominent bowl and ribbed neck guard visible. The facial features are rendered in a compact archaic-transitional style characteristic of Pamphylian civic coinage of the fifth and early fourth centuries BC. The flan is irregular and the relief, though small in scale, is well-centered within the field. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Side was a prosperous Greek colony on the Pamphylian coast whose mint operated with notable independence — the city retained its own non-Greek script on coinage long after Hellenization, a linguistic stubbornness unmatched among regional mints. At the obol denomination, these pieces served the smallest daily transactions of a port economy heavily involved in the grain and slave trades. The SNG France sequence documents meaningful die variation across this range, and attributing individual specimens requires close attention to pomegranate die pairings rather than relying on type alone.