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| Issuer | Silandus (Conventus of Sardis) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse lettering | ΕΠΙ ΕΛΕΝΟΥ ΑΠΟΛ ΑΡ Α ΤΟ Β, ϹΙΛΑΝΔΕΩΝ (Translation: under Helenos, son of Apollonides, first archon for the second time, of the Silandeans) |
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Silandus was a minor Lydian city of negligible political weight, which makes its municipal bronze coinage under Septimius Severus historically interesting for a different reason: the magistrate name recorded here — Helenos, serving in his second term as archon — appears across a cluster of issues that numismatists use to sequence the city's otherwise poorly documented civic calendar. The abbreviation ΑΡ Α ΤΟ Β confirms this is his second tenure, a detail that places this piece within a narrow administrative window rather than simply across an eighteen-year reign.