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Obol
| Issuer | Side |
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| Year | 300 BC - 100 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Obverse description | Confronting head of a lion facing left, rendered in bold high relief characteristic of Pamphylian coinage. The mane is depicted with pronounced radiating locks framing the face, and the open jaws reveal the teeth in a snarling expression. The modelling is vigorous and naturalistic, occupying the majority of the flan. The irregular flan edge is typical of hammered silver issues of this denomination and period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Side was one of the most commercially active ports on the Pamphylian coast, and its silver fractions circulated widely through trade networks linking the eastern Mediterranean to the Anatolian interior. The city maintained a remarkably consistent civic coinage through the Hellenistic period despite successive overlords — Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and eventually Roman — largely because its harbor revenues gave local magistrates unusual monetary autonomy.
The Atlan reference range of 121–126 suggests magistrate-controlled die variation, a common Sidetan practice for accountability rather than artistry.