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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.