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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24826851, member: 26430&quot;]Great example of a very cool -- albeit mysterious -- type. This type is discussed on p. 16 in Nicholas Victor Sekunda&#039;s article on &quot;Anatolian War Sickles and the Coinage of Etenna,&quot; pp. 9-18 in Aston (ed.) 1996, <i>Studies in Ancient Coinage from Turkey </i>[<a href="http://royalnumismaticsociety.org/RNS_Web/Pages/SP_029.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://royalnumismaticsociety.org/RNS_Web/Pages/SP_029.pdf" rel="nofollow">direct to PDF</a> = SP 29 from the <a href="https://numismatics.org.uk/society-publications-2/special-publications-and-coin-hoards/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org.uk/society-publications-2/special-publications-and-coin-hoards/" rel="nofollow">RNS Special Publications page</a>].</p><p><br /></p><p>I would certainly like to know more about exactly who the obverse men are (described as &quot;fighting&quot; by von Aulock and Sekunda) and the woman (described there as defending herself from the serpent). These may have to do with Lycian mythology? Or something else? (Another <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/etenna-origin-story.365367/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/etenna-origin-story.365367/">CT thread gave an origin story</a>; not sure if it&#039;s been supported by sources or not?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have any coins of Etenna (or, if I do, they&#039;re in un-cataloged groups), but I have coins from its neighbors:</p><p><br /></p><p>Etenna was directly between Pamphylia, Side (to the south) and Pisidia, Selge (north and west). Its status as a border town on the road between those cities seems to have been central to its economy, wars, and eventual fate. (I believe it may have been destroyed as one point; it supported a Seleukid usurper against Selge. Information seems scarce, though.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Pisidia, Selge struck a long &amp; vast series of Gorgon &amp; Athena Obols that were the&nbsp; apparent inspiration for the small silver fractions of Etenna (you;ll notice the similarity if you compare to <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/etenna-origin-story.365367/#post-4771731" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/etenna-origin-story.365367/#post-4771731">the examples here in a post</a> by [USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER]):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589730[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Pisidia, Selge AR Obol </b>(10mm, 0.82g), c. 300-190 BCE. </font></p><p><font size="4">Gorgon facing / helmeted head of Athena r., astragalos behind.</font></p><p><font size="4">cf. SNG von Aulock 5278 &amp; Sear 5479.</font></p><p><font size="4">Ex Gorny 267 (<i>Suddeutchem Sammlung H.I.</i>??)</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Pamphylia, Side may be best known for its Pomegranate Staters. Here&#039;s mine, which was published in Sabahat Atlan&#039;s (1967: spec. 35.1) corpus &amp; definitive study of the city&#039;s coinage:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1589734[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Pamphylia, Side AR Stater </b>(19mm, 8.71g), c. 430-400 BCE.</font></p><p><font size="4">Pomegranate / helmeted head of Athena r., branch before.</font></p><p><font size="4">Atlan 35.1 (this coin illustrated); cf. SNG von Aulock 4765</font></p><p><font size="4">Ex Kress 121 (4 Dec 1961), 198; Malloy XII (25 Apr 1978), 457; Malloy XV (30 Nov 1979), 313; CNG EA 487.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p></blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1589733[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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