Teos, silver, diobols (griffin/letters in quadripartite incuse square) (400-375 BCE)
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400 BCE - 375 BCE Silver 562 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Griffin seated right, one forepaw raised. |
| Reverse: | Quadripartite incuse square |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Teos | Ancient region: | Ionia | Modern country: Turkey | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 400 BCE | to | 375 BCE | Period: Classical 480-323 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 0.90 | Denomination: | diobol
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Standard: |
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References
| Die study reference: | "[[Die study reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Kinns 1980, p. 502-503 (Period I, AR I, D1/D8-R1/R8). | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 8 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 6 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 8 | Number of coins (n) | 10 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 1.25 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 1.25 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 1 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 75 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 31.2 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 624,000 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 40 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00002 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 40% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 641.03 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 562 kg <br /> 562 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 1,602.56 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation
References
- ^ Kinns, Philip (1980), Studies in the coinage of Ionia: Erythrae, Teos, Lebedus, Colophon, c. 400-30 B.C., unpublished PhD thesis, Cambridge University.
