Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XIII 23 March 2017
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Pamphylia, Side AR Stater. Circa 490-450 BC. Pomegranate, ΣIΔH (retrograde) to left; all within beaded circular border / Raven standing to right, 'NRBISBÆK' in Sidetic around; all within square beaded border within square incuse. A. Destrooper-Georgiades, An Unusual Coin from Side" in NK 14 (1995), fig. 1 = D. Tsangari, Hellenic Coinage: The Alpha Bank Collection (Athens, 2007), 157 (same dies); Triton XVI, 516 = Gemini III, 210 (same dies); otherwise unpublished.
Good Very Fine. Excessively Rare; one of only three known examples - one in the Alpha Bank Collection, the other sold at Triton XVI, 2013 for $8,500 despite being severely cut.
This wonderful type has been suggested as being the first issue of coinage from Side. Certainly, the fabric of the coin is highly archaic, and the avian type does not repeat itself ever again at Side, except as an adjunct symbol of Apollo. "
Good Very Fine. Excessively Rare; one of only three known examples - one in the Alpha Bank Collection, the other sold at Triton XVI, 2013 for $8,500 despite being severely cut.
This wonderful type has been suggested as being the first issue of coinage from Side. Certainly, the fabric of the coin is highly archaic, and the avian type does not repeat itself ever again at Side, except as an adjunct symbol of Apollo. "