Ashdod, silver, obols (450-333 BCE)
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450 BCE - 333 BCE Silver 227 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Janiform head of bearded male, left, and female, right |
| Reverse: | Š (in Aramaic) above (Aramaic).Bovine couchant right, head left, below, two rams' heads confronted, all in dotteed square within shallow incuse square |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Ashdod | Ancient region: | Judaea | Modern country: Israel | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 450 BCE | to | 333 BCE | Period: Classical 480-323 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 0.70 | Denomination: | obol
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Standard: |
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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.]]1Gitler - Tal 2006, p. 76-93 | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 10, n° 88 | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 10 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 4 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | Number of coins (n) | 20 | |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 2 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 40 % | |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 16.23 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 324,600 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 20 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00006 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 80% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 2,464.57 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 227 kg <br /> 227 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 6,161.43 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation A is for "Athenian style"; P is for "Philistian style"
References
- ^ Gitler, Haim - Tal, Oren (2006), The Coinage of Philistia of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC. A Study of the Earliest Coins of Palestine, Collezioni Numismatiche 6, Milan
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series. 10. handbook of coins of the Southern Levant : Phoenicia, southern Koile Syria (including Judaea), and Arabia, Lancaster-London, lxxix, 201 p.
