Teos, silver, tetartemoria (griffin's head/quadripartite incuse square) (540-478 BCE)
From SILVER
540 BCE - 478 BCE Silver 51 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Griffin head left |
| Reverse: | Quadripartite incuse square |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Teos | Ancient region: | Ionia | Modern country: Turkey | Authority: |
Chronology
| From | 540 BCE | to | 478 BCE | Period: Archaic until 480 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 0.25 | Denomination: | tetartemorion
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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.]]1Balcer 1968, p. 36-37, n° 73-80 (Group XXXIII). | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 8 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 5 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 17 | Number of coins (n) | 24 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 3 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 1.41 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 2.13 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 62.5 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 10.19 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 203,800 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 12 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00012 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 79.17% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 4,710.5 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 51 kg <br /> 51 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 11,776.25 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation
References
- ^ Balcer, Jack M. (1968), "The early silver coinage of Teos", Revue Suisse de Numismatique 47, p. 5-50.
