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Obol
| Issuer | Side |
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| Year | 300 BC - 100 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Confronting lion's head in full face, rendered with bold, expressive strokes characteristic of Pamphylian civic coinage; the mane radiates outward in stylized locks surrounding the snarling visage, with open jaws depicting the roaring lion. The flan is typically small and irregularly shaped, consistent with hammered silver obol coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Side was one of the dominant commercial ports of Pamphylia, and its coinage circulated widely across the eastern Mediterranean trade routes. The city maintained striking autonomy well into the Hellenistic period despite successive Ptolemaic and then Seleucid influence over the region — a flexibility that kept its mint active across two centuries of shifting political control.
The SNG references place this among a well-documented but genuinely small denomination, struck at a weight standard that drifted noticeably across the type's production span.