S 1819 - Acanthus, silver, tritetartemoria (Period E) (460-430 BCE)
From SILVER
460 BCE - 430 BCE Silver 192 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Head of bull right |
| Reverse: | Quadripartite incuse square |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Acanthus | Ancient region: | Macedon | Modern country: Greece | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 460 BCE | to | 430 BCE | Period: Classical 480-323 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 0.50 | Denomination: | tritetartemorion | 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. 264-265 | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 14 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 8 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 15 | Number of coins (n) | 36 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 2.57 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 2.4 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 1.07 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 57.14 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 19.21 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 384,200 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 22.91 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00009 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 77.78% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 3,748.05 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 192 kg <br /> 192 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 9,370.12 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation
References
- ^ Tselekas, Panagiotis (1996), The Coinage of Acanthus, Oxford, St Cross College, DPhil, 350 p., 7 maps, 53 pl.
