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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.