Erythrae, bronze (5g) (bearded Heracles/magistrate's name - Kinns 22) (70-60 BCE)
From SILVER
70 BCE - 60 BCE Bronze
Description
| Obverse: | Head of Herakles bearded wearing an oak wreath left |
| Reverse: | (Greek).Name in three to five lines |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Erythrae | Ancient region: | Ionia | Modern country: Turkey | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 70 BCE | to | 60 BCE | Period: Hellenistic 323-30 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Bronze
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Median weight in grams | 5.00 | Denomination: | 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.]]1Kinns 1980, p. 474, AE 22 | ||
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Obverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 3 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | Number of coins (n) | 64 | |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 21.33 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | % | |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 2.91 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 58,200 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 3.15 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00110 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | % | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 43,986.25 |
| 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 | 109,965.64 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation
References
- ^ Kinns, Philip (1980), Studies in the coinage of Ionia: Erythrae, Teos, Lebedus, Colophon, c. 400-30 B.C., unpublished PhD thesis, Cambridge University.
