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Stater / Double Siglos
| Issuer | Side (Pamphylia) |
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| Year | 360 BC - 333 BC |
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| Currency | Persic siglos/drachm |
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| Obverse script | Sidetic |
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| Reverse description | Apollo shown standing to left in the act of sacrificing, holding a long laurel branch in one hand and tilting a phiale over a flaming altar positioned to the left. The ethnic legend of Side in the Sidetic script appears to the right of the figure. The composition reflects the standard civic reverse type of Side during the late Achaemenid period, executed in confident die-engraving with clear spatial organisation of the figural and epigraphic elements. |
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Side maintained an unusual degree of monetary independence throughout the Persian period, continuing to strike its own civic coinage even as neighboring Pamphylian cities deferred to Achaemenid monetary policy. The city's silver issues from this period draw their weight standard from the Persian siglos system while functioning as a local double unit — a pragmatic hybrid that facilitated trade both inland toward Persia and westward into the Aegean.
Production of this type ends with the Macedonian arrival in 333 BC, when Alexander swept through Pamphylia during his Anatolian campaign. Side surrendered without resistance.