Dia (Mithridates Eupator), bronze (8.2g) (Dionysus/cista) (73-72 BCE)

73 BCE - 72 BC Bronze

Obverse:	Head of youthful Dionysus right, wearing wreath of ivy and fruit.
Reverse:	ΔΙΑΣ (Greek).Panther skin and thyrsus on cista mystica, to left, two monograms, to r., one monogram.

Bithynia

73 BCE

72 BC

Period: Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

Bronze

8.00

Die study reference:	"[[Die study reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Callataÿ (to appear)
Coin series reference:	"[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 7, n° 452.
Coin series web reference:	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/dia.waddington.1908.1

no distribution is available

Number of obverses ^ᵖ (o)	5	Number of singletons (o1) ^ᵖ	2
Number of reverse dies (r)	17	Number of coins (n)	30
Coins per obverse die (n/o)	6	Coins per reverse die (n/r)	1.76
Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o)	3.4	Percentage of singletons (o1) ^ᵖ	40 %
Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ^ᵖ	5.39	Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ^ᵖ	107,800
Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ^ᵖ (O)	6	Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ^ᵖ	0.00028
Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ^ᵖ (o = % of O)	93.33%	Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ^ᵖ	11,131.73
Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ^ᵖ	n.a.	Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ^ᵖ	27,829.31

Most likely one single workstation Likely military

References

^ Callataÿ (to appear)
^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2012), Handbook of Greek Coinages. 7. Coins of northern and Central Anatolia - Pontos, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, Phrygia, Galatia, lykaonia, and Kappadokia (with Kolchis and the Kimmerian bosporos), Lancaster, lxxxii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.