Aradus (Seleucus I), silver, hemidrachms (Heracles/seated Zeus) (311-301 BCE)
From SILVER
311 BCE - 301 BCE Silver 619 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Head of Heracles right, wearing Nemean lion skin headdress. |
| Reverse: | BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Greek). |
Mint and issuing power
Chronology
| From | 311 BCE | to | 301 BCE | Period: Hellenistic 323-30 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 2.00 | Denomination: | hemidrachm
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Standard: | Attic |
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References
| Die study reference: | "[[Die study reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Houghton 1991, p. 99-117. | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2Price 1991, n° 3362 | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 7 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 5 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | Number of coins (n) | 11 | |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 1.57 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 71.43 % | |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 15.48 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 309,600 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 19.25 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00004 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 54.55% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 1,421.19 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 619 kg <br /> 619 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 3,552.97 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation
References
- ^ Houghton, Arthur (1991), "The Antioch Project," in William E. Metcalf (ed.), Mnemata : papers in memory of Nancy M. Waggoner, New York, p. 73-97
- ^ Price, Martin Jessop (1991), The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus: a British Museum Catalogue, 2 vol., Zürich-London, 637 p., 637 p., clix pl.
