Erythrae, silver, drachms (Heracles/club and bow in bowcase) (360-342 BCE)
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360 BCE - 342 BCE Silver 515 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Head of Heracles right, wearing Nemean lion skin headdress. |
| Reverse: | EPY (Greek).Club and bow in bow-case, owl in left field, magistrate’s name AΠEΛΛAΣ |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Erythrae | Ancient region: | Ionia | Modern country: Turkey | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 360 BCE | to | 342 BCE | Period: Classical 480-323 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 3.60 | Denomination: | drachma
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Standard: | Rhodian |
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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.]]1Kinns 1980, p. 425-426 (Period II, phase 2, AR IB). | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 7 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 0 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 24 | Number of coins (n) | 66 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 9.43 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 2.75 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 3.43 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 0 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 7.15 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 143,000 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 7.83 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00046 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 100% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 18,461.54 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 515 kg <br /> 515 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 46,153.85 |
Remarks
Most likely two workstations
References
- ^ Kinns, Philip (1980), Studies in the coinage of Ionia: Erythrae, Teos, Lebedus, Colophon, c. 400-30 B.C., unpublished PhD thesis, Cambridge University.
