Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1465. Estimate $1500. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002. Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PAMPHYLIA, Side. Circa 490-400 BC. AR Stater (10.76 gm). Pomegranate; head of a lion right / Helmeted head of Athena right, wearing necklace; all within a dotted incuse square. Atlan 24 (O22/A22); SNG Paris 626 (same dies); SNG von Aulock -. EF, strike a bit soft on high points. ($1500)
The name of the city is the same as the Greek word meaning pomegranate, and this fruit was the city's emblem.