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Stater / Double Siglos
| Issuer | Side |
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| Year | 430 BC - 400 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Helmeted head of Athena facing right, wearing a Corinthian helmet pushed back on the head, rendered in archaic Greek style with careful attention to facial contour. An olive branch appears before the deity in the left field. The entire design is set within a shallow incuse square, a hallmark of early Greek coinage technique. The relief is crisp and the style consistent with late fifth-century Pamphylian coinage. |
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| Mint | Side (Pamphylia) |
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Side was an important Pamphylian port city that maintained striking independence in its coinage long after neighboring mints had adopted more Hellenized conventions. These staters belong to a period when Side was almost certainly under loose Achaemenid suzerainty, yet the mint continued issuing on the local Pamphylian weight standard rather than conforming to Persian siglos practice — an unusual assertion of civic monetary identity for a tributary city. The double siglos designation reflects a later numismatic attempt to reconcile the weight with Persian denominational logic that likely never applied in local use.