Got this in a multiple lot. Can someone comment what the crescent and the two stars are symbolizing? Silandos was a city in the late Roman province of Lydia. AE 16, Lydia, Silandos, Pseudo-autonomous coinage, Time of Elagabalus, 218 – 222 AD 16 mm; 2.944 g Weber 6915; BMC 14; SNG Tuebingen 3829; Waddington 5283; Paris 1349; SGI 5042 Ob.: CIΛANΔOC, draped bust of Tyche to r. wearing a turreted crown. Rev.: CIΛANΔEΩN crescent holding a star and star above. Please feel free to comment and/or share anything relevant.
The goddess Selene is represented by a crescent moon with two stars-- Phosphorus and Hesperus...the morning and evening stars (think dioscuri).
@Victor_Clark The reference to a crescent moon and 2 stars representing Selene is interesting. Here's an interesting coin from Hierapolis with a reverse with a crescent moon with a stars that is sitting on top of bull skull. The stars are connected. So maybe we might have a comet? But would love to get your opinion on this coin. Is it a reference to Men with bull skull?
