Stater / Double Siglos

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.