S 783 - Abdera, bronze, dichalkon, 311-280 BC

311 BCE - 280 BCE Bronze

Description

Obverse:	Griffin lying on a club left or right, open wing, one front paw raised. (In the field, a magistrate name (letters and/or monogram) and/or symbol (flower, star, bunch of grapes)).
Reverse:	ABΔΗPΙΤΕΩΝ (Greek).Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath,within square.

Mint and issuing power

Mint:

Abdera

Ancient region:

Thrace

Modern country: Greece

Authority:

Chronology

From

311 BCE

to

280 BCE

Period: Hellenistic ^{323-30 BC}

Physical description

Metal:

Bronze

Denomination:

dichalkon

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.]]1Chryssanthaki-Nagle 2007, p. 209-222, no. 142-263, 269-272.
Coin series reference:

Obverse dies distribution

Frequency ^ᵖ	Number of obverses ^ᵖ (o)	% (o)	Number of coins (n)	% (n)	Die name
4	1	0.83	4	0.98	D7 (ΕΥΑ)
1	109	90.83	109	26.72	D2 (ΘΕ), D3 (ΘΕ), D4 (issue 1), D5 (ΘΕ), D1 (ΣΧΗ), D1 (flower), D2 (flower), D3 (flower), D4 (flower), D5 (flower), D6 (flower), D1 (star), D2 (star), D3 (star), D4 (star), D1 (grapes), D2 (grapes), D3 (grapes), D4 (grapes), D5 (grapes), D6 (grapes), D7 (grapes), D8 (grapes), D9 (grapes), D10 (grapes), D1 (ΑΝΤ), D1 (ΛΥΚ), D2 (ΛΥΚ), D3 (ΛΥΚ), D4 (ΛΥΚ), D5 (ΛΥΚ), D6 (ΛΥΚ), D7 (ΛΥΚ), D8 (ΛΥΚ), D1 (ΕΥΑ), D3(ΕΥΑ), D5 (ΕΥΑ), D6 (ΕΥΑ), D8 (ΕΥΑ), D9 (ΕΥΑ), D10 (ΕΥΑ), D11 (ΕΥΑ), D12 (ΕΥΑ), D2 (ΜΕΝ), D3 (ΜΕΝ), D6 (ΜΕΝ), D7 (ΜΕΝ), D8 (ΜΕΝ), D9 (ΜΕΝ), D10 (ΜΕΝ), D12 (ΜΕΝ), D13 (ΜΕΝ), D14 (ΜΕΝ), D15 (ΜΕΝ), D16 (ΜΕΝ), D17 (ΜΕΝ), D18 (ΜΕΝ), D19 (ΜΕΝ), D20 (ΜΕΝ), D21 (ΜΕΝ), D1 (ΕΡΜ), D1 (mon.1), D2 (mon.1), D3 (mon.1), D4 (mon.1), D5 (mon.1), D2 (ΕΡΜ), D3 (ΕΡΜ), D4 (ΕΡΜ), D5 (ΕΡΜ), D1 (ΕΡΜ, star, mon.2), D2 (ΕΡΜ, D3 (ΕΡΜ, D4 (ΕΡΜ, D5 (ΕΡΜ, mon.3), D1 (ΑΡΙ), D2 (ΑΡΙ), D3 (ΑΡΙ), D4 (ΑΡΙ), D5 (ΑΡΙ), D7 (ΑΡΙ), D8 (ΑΡΙ), D9 (ΑΡΙ), D10 (ΑΡΙ), D1 (ΧΑΙ), D2 (ΧΑΙ), D3 (ΧΑΙ), D4 (ΧΑΙ), D5 (ΧΑΙ), D7 (ΧΑΙ), D8 (ΧΑΙ), D9 (ΧΑΙ), D10 (ΧΑΙ), D11 (ΧΑΙ), D12 (ΧΑΙ), D1 (mon.4, ΦΙΛ, star), D2 (mon.4, D3 (mon.4, D2 (ΦΙΛ, mon.5, caduceus), D3 (ΦΙΛ, D4 (ΦΙΛ, D5 (ΦΙΛ, D6 (ΦΙΛ, D1 (mon.6), D1 (mon.7), D2 (mon.7), D unnamed (no symbol, no magistrate name)
2	8	6.67	16	3.92	D1 (ΘΕ), D4 (ΕΥΑ), D1 (ΜΕΝ), D4 (ΜΕΝ), D11 (ΜΕΝ), D6 (ΑΡΙ), D6 (ΧΑΙ), D1 (ΦΙΛ, mon.5, caduceus)
3	2	1.67	6	1.47	D2 (ΕΥΑ), D5 (ΜΕΝ)
Total	120 of 120	100	135 of 408	33.09

Reverse dies distribution

no distribution is available

Quantification

Number of obverses ^ᵖ (o)	120	Number of singletons (o1) ^ᵖ	109
Number of reverse dies (r)	121	Number of coins (n)	408
Coins per obverse die (n/o)	3.4	Coins per reverse die (n/r)	3.37
Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o)	1.01	Percentage of singletons (o1) ^ᵖ	90.83 %
Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ^ᵖ	146.15	Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ^ᵖ	2,923,000
Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ^ᵖ (O)	170	Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ^ᵖ	0.00014
Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ^ᵖ (o = % of O)	73.28%	Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ^ᵖ	5,583.3
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	13,958.26

Remarks

References

^ Chryssanthaki-Nagle, Katerina (2007), L’histoire monétaire d’Abdère en Thrace (VIe s. av. J.-C. – IIe s. ap. J.-C.), Paris, de Boccard, 431 p., 64 plates.