Sidareus
σιδάρεος
Sidareus (σιδάρεος). Julius Pollux (9.78) quotes from Strattis a mention of sidarei as small iron coins current at Byzantium. None of these are extant, nor of the celebrated iron coins of Sparta [PELANOR]; but we have several specimens of iron coins issued in the fifth century B.C. at cities of Peloponnesus.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.