View source for 2420 - Side (double siglos pomegranate/Athena) over Aspendus (hoplite/triskeles) (Nomos, 19, Nov. 2019, 170)

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|Image overstriking coin=SO_1781_-_Side_(double_siglos_pomegranate-Athena).jpeg
|Image reference overstriking coin=https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6497274
|Image overstruck variety=Aspendos_hoplite-triskeles.jpeg
|Image reference overstruck variety=https://pro.coinarchives.com/a/lotviewer.php?LotID=2194852&AucID=5280&Lot=445
|Sale=Nomos, 19, 17 Nov. 2019, 170
|Obverse description=Pomegrenate on a stern with leafs.
|Reverse description=Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet. Il right field, dolphin. All within incuse square.
|Mint=Side
|Ancient region=Pamphylia
|Authority=Persian Empire
|Date from=460 BCE
|Date to=450 BCE
|Period=Classical
|Metal=Silver
|Weight=10.77
|Diameter=21
|Axis=12
|Denomination=double siglos
|Standard=Persian
|Coin series reference=Atlan 1967, II.10
|Coin series web reference=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/side_atlan_1967_ii.10
|Overstruck obverse description=Warrior walking right, naked, wearing helmet, holding spear in right hand, shield attached on left arm.
|Overstruck reverse legend=ΕΣΤ
|Overstruck reverse legend language=Greek
|Overstruck reverse description=Triskeles of human legs. All within incuse square.
|Overstruck mint=Aspendus
|Overstruck ancient region=Pamphylia
|Overstruck authority=Persian Empire
|Overstruck date from=466 BCE
|Overstruck date to=430 BCE
|Overstruck period=Classical
|Overstruck denomination=double siglos
|Overstruck standard=Persian
|Coin series reference overstruck=Babelon 1901, Part 2, Tome 1, p. 526-530, n° 869-70 ; SNG von Aulock Pamphylien, n° 4482-83 ; SNG France 3, n° 12-13
|Coin series web reference overstruck=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aspendus_babelon_1907_869-70
|Frequency of overstrikes=rare and concentrated
|Level of confidence=strong
|Remarks="overstruck on an Aspendos stater. Until now, this series has been dated to between 479 and 460 BC, primarily because of the particularly late-Archaic-looking head of Athena on the reverse. The present coin requires to revise that chronology since it is definitely overstruck on a stater of Aspendos, dated independently to c. 465 - 430! On the coin's obverse the undertype is that of a helmeted warrior striding to left, holding a spear and shield (traces of the warrior's body are visible on the pomegranate when the coin is inverted); on the reverse are traces of the undertype of a triskeles in an incuse square (one leg is visible on the cheek of Athena). If we accept that the earlier and cruder types of the Aspendian series with the warrior and the triskeles have to be dated to c. 465-440, the coin of Side we have here, which is stylistically very close to all the other known examples of this early type, cannot be dated before 460 BC. Thus we can suggest that this series ought to be dated to 460-450 BC; thus, we have to downdate the beginning of the next period of the coinage of Side."
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