S 539 - Coressia, bronze (Apollo/bee) (300-200 BCE)
From SILVER
300 BCE - 200 BCE Bronze
Description
| Obverse: | Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath. |
| Reverse: | KOPH (Greek).Bee. |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Coressia | Ancient region: | Cyclades | Modern country: Greece | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 300 BCE | to | 200 BCE | Period: Hellenistic 323-30 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Bronze
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Median weight in grams | 6.00 | Denomination: | 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.]]1Papageorgiadou-Banis 1997, p. 81, n° 68-83 (Series VI) | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2Sear I, n° 3086, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 6, n° 586 | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 9 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 7 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 14 | Number of coins (n) | 19 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 2.11 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 1.36 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 1.56 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 77.78 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 14 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 280,000 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 17.1 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00007 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 63.16% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 2,714.29 |
| 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 | 6,785.71 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation
References
- ^ Papageorgiadou-Banis, Charikleia (1997), The Coinage of Kea, Meletemata 24, Athens, viii, 107 p., 21 pl.
- ^ Sear, David R. (1978), Greek coins and their values. Vol. I, Europe, London, xl, 316 p.
- ^ 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.
