Homolium, bronze, ca 8.5g (Philoctetes left/serpent) (360-340 BCE)
From SILVER
360 BCE - 340 BCE Bronze
Description
| Obverse: | Head of Philoktetes l. |
| Reverse: | OMOΛ – IEΩN (Greek).Snake coiled r. |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Homolium | Ancient region: | Thessaly | Modern country: Greece | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 360 BCE | to | 340 BCE | Period: Classical 480-323 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Bronze
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Median weight in grams | 8.50 | Denomination: | 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.]]1Blomley 2024 | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 4, n° 87 | ||
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Obverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 8 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 11 | Number of coins (n) | 68 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 8.5 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 6.18 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 1.38 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 8.25 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 165,000 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 9.07 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00041 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | % | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 16,484.85 |
| 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 | 41,212.12 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation
References
- ^ Blomley, Anna Magdalena (2024), The Bronze Coins of Eastern Mount Ossa in the Thessalian Perioikic Region of Magnesia (Homolion, Eureai, Eurymenai, and Meliboia), Numismatic Notes and Monographs 173, New York, xxviii + 232 p.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2014), Handbook of Greek Coinage Series 4. Northern and Central Greece : Achaia Phthiotis, Ainis, Magnesia, Malis, Oita, Perrhaibia, Thessaly, Akarnania, Aitolia, Lokris, Phokis, Boiotia, Euboia, Attica, Megaris and Corinthia, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, lxxi, 563 p.
