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Stater
| Issuer | Side |
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| Year | 430 BC - 400 BC |
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| Reference(s) | SNG France#628, Atlan#41-42, SNG Ashmolean#1413 |
| Obverse description | Pomegranate depicted facing, rendered in high relief at the centre of the flan, with a short stem and calyx visible at the top and a stylised floral bud element at the base. The fruit is surrounded by a beaded border within a raised circular frame, leaving a plain, slightly recessed field between the border and the irregular coin edge. The design is characteristic of the civic coinage of Side in Pamphylia, where the pomegranate served as the principal emblem and probable pun on the city's name. |
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| Reverse description | Head of Athena facing right, helmeted with a Corinthian-style helmet pushed back on the head, rendered in fine archaic-transitional style within a shallow incuse square. The helmet bowl and cheek-guards are articulated with careful detail, and curling locks of hair emerge beneath the helmet along the nape and brow. Above the helmet a stylised olive sprig with a single leaf is visible in the upper field of the incuse square. The portrait displays the characteristic almond-shaped eye and firm profile typical of late fifth-century Pamphylian die-cutting. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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