S 1299 - Uncertain mint, gold, hemistater

Die Studies Database

SILVER ID ^ᵖ: 8426

Gold 0 kg

Description

Obverse:	B Σ (A) (Greek).Head of Athena to right, wearing a triple-crested Attic helmet. Border of dots.
Reverse:	AP, TP or TY (Greek) and 'pa-sa' (Cypriot syllabary) Bull walking to right.

Mint and issuing power

Mint:

Ancient region:

Modern country:

Authority:

Sa… (king of Cyprus in the Classical period)

Chronology

From

to

Period: Classical 480-323 BC

Physical description

Metal:

Gold

Denomination:

hemistater

Standard:

References

Die study reference:	"[[Die study reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Markou 2011, p. 99, no. 1-5.
Coin series reference:

Obverse dies distribution

Frequency ᵖ	Number of obverses ᵖ (o)	% (o)	Number of coins (n)	% (n)	Die name
2	1	50	2	40	D1
3	1	50	3	60	D2
Total	2 of 2	100	5 of 5	100

Reverse dies distribution

no distribution is available

Quantification

Number of obverses ᵖ (o)	2	Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ	0
Number of reverse dies (r)	2	Number of coins (n)	5
Coins per obverse die (n/o)	2.5	Coins per reverse die (n/r)	2.5
Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o)	1	Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ	0 %
Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ	2.79	Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ	55,800
Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O)	3.33	Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ	0.00009
Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O)	100%	Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ	3,584.23
Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ	0 kg <br /> 0 kg	Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ	8,960.57

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