31323 - Side (double siglos Athena/Apollo - Atlan O53) over Aspendus (wrestlers/slinger) (CNG, EA 603, Feb. 2026, 283)

Metal: Silver	Weight in grams: 10.6610.66 g <br />10,660 mg <br />	Denomination: double siglos	Axis: 1111 mm <br />1.1 cm <br />
Diameter: 24.524.5 mm <br />2.45 cm <br />		Standard: Persian

References

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.]]1SNG Copenhagen Lycia-Pamphylia, n° 372, "[[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° 4767, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3Atlan 1967, Obv. 53, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4SNG France 3, n° 637-638 (same obv.), "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]5Callataÿ 2018b, p. 142, n° 21
Coin series web reference:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/side atlan 1967 v.50-74

Overstruck type

Description

Obverse:

Two naked athletes, wrestling, grasping each other by the arms

Reverse:

ESTFEDIIY behind (Pamphylian) Slinger advancing right, about to discharge his sling, before, triskeles above F, all in dotted square (visible on reverse: incuse square with a dotted border and the end of the extended hand of the slinger as well as the shoulder and part of the head)

Mint and issuing power

Mint ^ᵖ:

Aspendus

Ancient region ^ᵖ

Pamphylia

Modern country: Turkey

Authority ^ᵖ:

Persian Empire

Chronology

From 420 BCE to 380 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.]]1SNG Copenhagen Lycia-Pamphylia, n° 180-235, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2SNG von Aulock Pamphylien, n° 4502-4570, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4SNG France 3, n° 44-110, "[[Coin series reference overstruck" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]6Tekin 2000
Coin series web reference overstruck:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aspendus tekin 2000 series 1 https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aspendus tekin 2000 series 2 https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aspendus tekin 2000 series 3

Additional data

Frequency of overstrikes:	rare and concentrated	Level of confidence:	sure
Remarks:	"overstruck on a stater of Aspendos (feet of slinger visible on the reverse)"

References

a b Breitenstein, Niels (1955), Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collections of coins and medals. Danish National Museum, 31, Lycia-Pamphylia.
a b Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Sammlung v. Aulock. Pamphylien. 11 Heft (n° 4477-4893), Berlin, 1965.
^ Atlan, Sabahat (1967), Untersuchungen über die sidetischen Münzen des V. und IV. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., Ankara, 181 p., 12 pl.
a b 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 (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.
^ Tekin, Oguz (2000), "Aspendian 'Wrestlers' : an iconographic approach", in: Casabonne, Olivier (ed), Mecanismes et innovations monetaires dans l'Anatolie achemenide : numismatique et histoire : actes de la table ronde internationale d'Istanbul, 22-23 mai 1997, Paris, Institut français d'etudes antoliennes d'Istanbul, p.159-169, pl. 27-28