S 784 - Abdera, bronze, chalkous, 311-280 BC

Die Studies Database

SILVER ID ^ᵖ: 9067

311 BCE - 280 BCE Bronze

Description

Obverse:	Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath, within incuse square.
Reverse:	ABΔΗPΙΤΩΝ (Greek).Griffin protome jumping right, open wing. In the field, monogram.

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:

chalkous

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. 221, no. 264-268.
Coin series reference:

Obverse dies distribution

Frequency ᵖ	Number of obverses ᵖ (o)	% (o)	Number of coins (n)	% (n)	Die name
1	5	100	5	55.56	D1, D2, D3, D4, D5
Total	5 of 5	100	5 of 9	55.56

Reverse dies distribution

no distribution is available

Quantification

Number of obverses ᵖ (o)	5	Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ	5
Number of reverse dies (r)	4	Number of coins (n)	9
Coins per obverse die (n/o)	1.8	Coins per reverse die (n/r)	2.25
Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o)	0.8	Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ	100 %
Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ	9.11	Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ	182,200
Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O)	11.25	Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ	0.00005
Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O)	44.44%	Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ	1,975.85
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	4,939.63

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