Watch List notes:

Pamphylia. Side. c. 203 BC. Tetradrachm, 17.02g (12h). Obv: Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet. Dotted border. Rx: Nike, wearing chiton and himation, advancing left, holding wreath in right hand. In left field, pomegranate and letters AΦ. SNG Paris -. SNG von Aulock -. See A. Meadows, AJN 21 (2009), p. 80, n. 58, and H. Seyrig, RN 1963, 57-63, on the dating. While the Athena on the obverse is in beautiful style, the walking Victory on the reverse is utterly exquisite. EF with luster



This is one of the earliest autonomous tetradrachms of Side, which according to A. Meadows may have been produced to pay for the war that the Seleucids were waging in Asia Minor around 203 BC