Side, the prosperous Pamphylian port city, maintained its own civic bronze coinage through the Hellenistic period even as Roman influence over the region tightened following the reorganization of Asia Minor after 133 BC. Small civic bronzes of this module were workhorse issues — passed hand to hand in local markets rather than hoarded — which makes survivors in any decent state of preservation genuinely scarce. SNG France 766 anchors the attribution firmly within the French national collection's Pamphylian holdings.
Side, the prosperous Pamphylian port city, maintained its own civic bronze coinage through the Hellenistic period even as Roman influence over the region tightened following the reorganization of Asia Minor after 133 BC. Small civic bronzes of this module were workhorse issues — passed hand to hand in local markets rather than hoarded — which makes survivors in any decent state of preservation genuinely scarce. SNG France 766 anchors the attribution firmly within the French national collection's Pamphylian holdings.