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Stater
| Issuer | Side |
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| Year | 490 BC - 450 BC |
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| Value | Silver Stater (3) |
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| Reverse description | A raven standing to the right, rendered in a bold, stylized archaic manner with detailed wing feathers indicated by incuse lines. The bird occupies the central field, which displays a pronounced convex die surface characteristic of early hammered coinage. An inscription in the Sidetic script encircles the design within a beaded border, the letters arranged around the periphery of the reverse field. The overall fabric is typical of early fifth-century Pamphylian silver issues. |
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| Mintage | ND (490 BC - 450 BC) - Only 2 examples known |
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Side was a Pamphylian port city whose early coinage belongs to the pre-League period, before the region fell under Achaemenid administrative pressure following the Persian Wars. The city maintained unusual monetary independence for a coastal settlement of its size, issuing silver at a standard weight that aligned loosely with the Persic rather than the Aeginetic system — a practical concession to eastern trade networks dominating the southern Anatolian littoral.
Archaic-style dies from this period were hand-cut with considerable individualism, and no two punches are identical.