Damastium, silver, drachms (360-323 BCE)
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360 BCE - 323 BCE Silver 3,946 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Female head right. |
| Reverse: | Portable ingot. |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Damastium | Ancient region: | Illyricum | Modern country: North Macedonia | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 360 BCE | to | 323 BCE | Period: Classical 480-323 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 2.65 | Denomination: | drachma
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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.]]1May 1939, Groups VII-X | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2Sear I, n° 1933, 1936, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3RQEMAC, n° 175, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]4HGC 3.1, n° 102-103 | ||
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Obverse dies distribution
Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 28 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 20 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | NC"NC" is not a number. | Number of coins (n) | 40 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 1.43 | 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 | 74.45 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 1,489,000 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 93.33 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00003 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 50% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 1,074.55 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 3,946 kg <br /> 3,946 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 2,686.37 |
Remarks
References
- ^ May, John M. F. (1939), The Coinage of Damastion and the Lesser Coinage of the Illyro-Paeonian Region, Oxford-London, xiv, 207 p., XII double pl.
- ^ Sear, David R. (1978), Greek coins and their values. Vol. I, Europe, London, xl, 316 p.
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (2003), Recueil quantitatif des émissions monétaires archaïques et classiques, Numismatique Romaine, Wetteren, VII + 267 p.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.
