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A Silandus Coin And Another Question

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Another coin that was a bit of a devil to pin down, from Silandus (Silandos) in Lydia. Initially I thought it was similar to https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/2857, but the reverse legend has a different orientation, i.e.reading clockwise from the top right. Wildwinds had the RPC 4 2857 coin as Mionnet IV, 814 (1), and below it another coin that had the legend in the correct format, as Mionnet IV, 814 (2).
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There is something odd about the left side of the reverse, especially the lower quadrant. Could it be a double strike or a die crack?

I didn't find much information about the city apart from the extract below from "Numismata Hellenica - A Catalogue of Greek Coins":
"SILANDUS Lydise.
Note.—This city is known only from its coins, which are both autonomous and imperial, and from its having been a Greek bishoprick under the metropolitan of Sardes. At Selenti, a village situated on a tributary of the Hermus, in the eastern part of Lydia, Mr. W. J. Hamilton found no remains of antiquity. Silandus, nevertheless, may be in that vicinity, the name perhaps having moved with the people,—a process of which there are many examples in Greece."
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Despite what the extract says, the map above corresponds with the location of Silandus in the Barrington Atlas.
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Lydia. Silandus. Semi-autonomous issue. 81-96 AD.
Obverse; Draped bust of the Roman Senate left. Obverse legend: IEPA CYNKΛHTOC. Reverse; Zeus seated left, holding patera and sceptre. Reverse legend: [CIΛAN]ΔEΩN. Bronze. Diameter: 25 mm. Weight: 9.86 gr.
Reference: Mionnet IV, 814 (2).
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Another unusual and interesting addition, Jim. Perhaps an overstrike?
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Thanks for the reply, Bob. An overstrike seems to be the only explanation for the "double edge" to the base of the reverse, plus the other oddities. I don't really mind that, as it appears to be an uncommon coin.
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I submitted the images of the coin to the RPC and it is now one of two in the database.

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/2857
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They're gonna have to create a Novicius wing over at RPC.
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I really should get around to submitting my weird Geta coin to RPC... but maybe I should post it on CCF first.

I do have a coin already posted on CCF that I've identified to a RPC type but it's a weird variant and some of the legend is hard to see through the patina (and I don't feel particularly confident of being able to correctly remove that without damaging the delicate lettering).
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I really should get around to submitting my weird Geta coin to RPC... but maybe I should post it on CCF first.

Why not, @january1may. I, for one, would like to see it. It does sound interesting.
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Why not, @january1may. I, for one, would like to see it. It does sound interesting.
Turns out that, while I do have a bunch of weird Geta coins (courtesy of a bargain bin at Hobby City that had so many Geta provincials I started skipping them in my sorting after the first two dozen or so), the specific coin I was thinking of is from Alexander Severus.

I'll try to make a thread, though!
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Looking forward to it.
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