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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 4579223, member: 57495&quot;]Update:</p><p><br /></p><p>As I had mentioned, I submitted this coin, which I believed to be unlisted in the RPC database, and some hours later, received a reply from Jerome Mairat, one of the RPC authors, and the lead on their digilisation efforts.&nbsp; He informed me that my coin IS in fact in the database, but not as an issue of Tyre, but Damascus.&nbsp; He also pointed that my coin (first one below) shares the same reverse die with another in the database (second coin), despite the fact that my coin shows a large Ambrosial rock to the left of seated Tyche, where the other shows a statue of Marsyas, the device expected for the issue!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133917[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1133918[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Per the notes on my coin from <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/15974" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/type/15974" rel="nofollow">the RPC listing</a> for the type, &quot;<i>the rev. has a large dome-shaped device in place of Marsyas, however, the die in question is identical to coin no. 2, so this is not a new type; possibly the result of an attempt to repair a major flaw in the die?</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure there are other instances of this happening, but in my limited knowledge, I haven&#039;t come across any other coin where where the die used had been recut to not just strengthen weakened features, or correct or replace legends, but with a completely new and different device.&nbsp; Perhaps the choice of the ambrosial rock to replace Marsyas may have been out of practicality because of the condition of the old die, but if anything, I think this now makes the coin even more interesting!&nbsp; As far as I can tell, there are currently no other surviving examples known that were produced from this altered die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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