S 220 - Naxos, silver, staters (540-515 BCE) Sheedy
From SILVER
540 BCE - 515 BCE Silver 2,827 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Kantharos |
| Reverse: | Quadripartite incuse square |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Naxos | Ancient region: | Cyclades | Modern country: Greece | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 540 BCE | to | 515 BCE | Period: Archaic until 480 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 12.30 | Denomination: | stater
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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.]]1Sheedy 2006, p. 193-194, n° 1-12 | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 6, n° 624 | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 8 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 3 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 11 | Number of coins (n) | 19 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 2.38 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 1.73 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 1.38 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 37.5 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 11.49 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 229,800 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 13.82 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00008 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 84.21% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 3,307.22 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 2,827 kg <br /> 2,827 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 8,268.06 |
Remarks
References
- ^ Sheedy, Kenneth A. (2006), The Archaic and Early Classical Coinages of the Cyclades, RNS Spec. Publ. 40, London, viii, 261 p., 20 pl.
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series, volume 6 : handbook of coins of the islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian seas (excluding Crete and Cyprus), sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, 358 p.
