S 164 - Carthaea, silver, obols (510-480 BCE) Sheedy
From SILVER
510 BCE - 480 BCE Silver 495 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Grape cluster with five grapes, on the left, dolphin swimming upwards. |
| Reverse: | Millsail pattern quadripartite incuse square. |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Carthaea | Ancient region: | Cyclades | Modern country: Greece | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 510 BCE | to | 480 BCE | Period: Archaic until 480 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 1.00 | Denomination: | obol
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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.]]1Sheedy 2006, p. 160-162, no. 26-32. | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 7 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 6 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 5 | Number of coins (n) | 9 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 1.29 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 1.8 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 0.71 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 85.71 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 24.73 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 494,600 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 31.5 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00002 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 33.33% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 727.86 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 495 kg <br /> 495 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 1,819.65 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation See Papageorgiadou-Banis 1997, p. 96, n° 25-30 (6 coins, 5 obv., 4 rev.)
References
- ^ Sheedy, Kenneth A. (2006), The Archaic and Early Classical Coinages of the Cyclades, RNS Spec. Publ. 40, London, viii, 261 p., 20 pl.
