Dicaea, silver, triobolss (Heracles/standing cock) (490-475 BCE)
From SILVER
490 BCE - 475 BCE Silver 721 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. |
| Reverse: | Cock standing right, in dotted square within incuse square. |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Dicaea | Ancient region: | Thrace | Modern country: Greece | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 490 BCE | to | 475 BCE | Period: Classical 480-323 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 2.00 | Denomination: | triobol
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Standard: |
Image
References
| Die study reference: | "[[Die study reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Schönert-Geiss 1975, p. 27-28, n° 32-51 | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2RQEMAC, n° 131 | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 14 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 9 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 12 | Number of coins (n) | 41 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 2.93 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 3.42 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 0.86 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 64.29 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 18.02 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 360,400 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 21.26 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00011 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 78.05% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 4,550.5 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 721 kg <br /> 721 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 11,376.25 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation
