Pydna, bronze (4.1g) (female head/owl on grain ear) (393-369 BCE)
From SILVER
393 BCE - 369 BCE Bronze
Description
| Obverse: | Female head (Artemis?) right. |
| Reverse: | ΠYΔN (Greek).Owl standing right, head facing, on grain-ear, three pellets to right. |
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 | 5.50 | 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.]]1Tselekas 1996, p. 31-32, n° B4-B14. | ||
| 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° 657, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3RQEMAC, n° 162a | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 13 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 12 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 12 | Number of coins (n) | 14 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 1.08 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 1.17 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 0.92 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 92.31 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 126.83 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 2,536,600 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 182 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00001 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 14.29% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 220.77 |
| 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 | 551.92 |
Remarks
This entry combines Tselekas n° 1-3 with Tselekas n° 4-14
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.
