28552 - Aspendus (double siglos hoplite/triskeles) over Side (pomegranate/Athena) (Vilmar Numismatics, inv. 18960)

Coin reference:		Coin series reference:	"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Babelon 1901-1932, Tome 1, Part 2, p. 526-530, n° 869-70, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG von Aulock Pamphylien, n° 4482-83, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3SNG France 3, n° 12-13, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4Callataÿ 2000b, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5Callataÿ 2018b, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]6Callataÿ 2022
Coin series web reference:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aspendus babelon 1907 869-70

Overstruck type

Description

Obverse:

Pomegranate, dotted guilloche border

Reverse:

Helmeted head of Athena right within incuse square

Mint and issuing power

Mint ^ᵖ:

Side

Ancient region ^ᵖ

Pamphylia

Modern country: Turkey

Authority ^ᵖ:

Persian Empire

Chronology

From 460 BCE to 430 BCE

Classical ^{480-323 BC}

period

Physical description

Denomination ^ᵖ:

double siglos

Standard ^ᵖ:

Persian

References

Coin type reference ^ᵖ:

"[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]7Atlan 1967, 16 (O15/R14)

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikes:	frequent	Level of confidence:	sure
Remarks:	"overstruck over a stater of Side, ca. 460–430 BC. Trace of the undertype’s obverse, the pomegranate within a guilloche border, are visible on the obverse while the undertype’s Athena head can partially be discerned on the reverse."

References

^ Babelon, Ernest (1901-1932), Traité des monnaies grecques et romaines, Paris, E. Leroux
^ Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Sammlung v. Aulock. Pamphylien. 11 Heft (n° 4477-4893), Berlin, 1965.
^ Levante, Edoardo [with the collaboration of Peter Weiss] (2001), Sylloge nummorum graecorum. France. 3, Département des monnaies, médailles et antiques : Pamphylie, Pisidie, Lyaconie, Galatie, Paris-Zürich, Bibliothèque nationale de France-Numismatica Ars Classica, XXXIV + 293 p. and 146 pl.
^ Callataÿ, François de (2000), "Les monnayages ciliciens du premier quart du IVe s. av. J.-C.", dans O. Casabonne (éd.), Mécanismes et innovations monétaires dans l'Anatolie achéménide, Numismatique et histoire. Actes de la Table Ronde Internationale d'Istanbul, 22-23 mai 1997, Paris, p. 93-127, pl IX-XV.
^ Callataÿ, François de (2018), “Overstrikes on Pamphylian and Cilician silver sigloi (5th-4th c. BC)”, in O. Tekin (ed.), Proceedings of the Second International Congress of the Anatolian Monetary History and Numismatics in the Mediterranean World, 5-8 January 2017 Antalya, Antalya, 2018, p. 131-150.
^ Callataÿ, François de (2022), “Pseudo-Civic not Civic: The Abundant Double Sigloi Struck by Pamphylian and Cilician Cities (ca 460–333 B.C.E.),” Phoenix, 76 (A. Meadows and J. Bodzek [eds.], Coinage in Imperial Space: Coins in the Economy of the Achaemenid and Early Hellenistic World), p. 45-69.
^ Atlan, Sabahat (1967), Untersuchungen über die sidetischen Münzen des V. und IV. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Ankara, 181 p., 12 pl.