Pydna, bronze, tetrachalka (4.1g) (Heracles/eagle devouring serpent) (393-369 BCE)
From SILVER
393 BCE - 369 BCE Bronze
Description
| Obverse: | Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress. |
| Reverse: | [[Reverse legend::ΠYΔNA[IΩN]]] (Greek).Eagle standing right, devouring serpent held in talons. |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Pydna | Ancient region: | Macedon | Modern country: Greece | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 393 BCE | to | 369 BCE | Period: Classical 480-323 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Bronze
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Median weight in grams | 4.10 | Denomination: | tetrachalkon
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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.]]1Tselekas 1996, p. 11-32, n° A1-A56. | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 3.1, n° 656, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3RQEMAC, n° 162 | ||
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Obverse dies distribution
| Frequency ᵖ | Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | % (o) | Number of coins (n) | % (n) | Die name |
| 1 | 26 | 70.27 | 26 | 44.83 | 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 |
| 2 | 6 | 16.22 | 12 | 20.69 | 1, 4, 13, 15, 20, 32 |
| 3 | 1 | 2.7 | 3 | 5.17 | 10 |
| 4 | 3 | 8.11 | 12 | 20.69 | 5, 29, 30 |
| 5 | 1 | 2.7 | 5 | 8.62 | 26 |
| Total | 37 of 37 | 100 | 58 of 58 | 100 |
Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 37 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 26 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 50 | Number of coins (n) | 58 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 1.57 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 1.16 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 1.35 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 70.27 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 82.15 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 1,643,000 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 102.19 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00004 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 55.17% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 1,412.05 |
| 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 | 3,530.13 |
Remarks
References
- ^ Tselekas, Panagiotis (1996), The Coinage of Acanthus, Oxford, St Cross College, DPhil, 350 p., 7 maps, 53 pl.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2016), Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. 3. Part I: Macedon, Illyria, and Epeiros, sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 437 p.
- ^ Callataÿ, François de (2003), Recueil quantitatif des émissions monétaires archaïques et classiques, Numismatique Romaine, Wetteren, VII + 267 p.
