Tyre, silver, quarter shekels (425-394 BCE)
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425 BCE - 394 BCE Silver 714 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Melkart, holding bow in extended left hand and reins in right, riding hippocamp right, below, waves above dolphin right |
| Reverse: | Owl standing right, head facing, crook and flail diagonally in background |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Tyre | Ancient region: | Phoenicia | Modern country: Lebanon | Authority: | Persian Empire |
Chronology
| From | 425 BCE | to | 394 BCE | Period: Classical 480-323 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Silver
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Median weight in grams | 3.20 | Denomination: | 1/4 shekel
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Standard: | Phoenician |
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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.]]1Elayi - Elayi 2009, p. 62-65, n° 401-429 (Series II.1.2) | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2Sear II, n° 5907, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3HGC 10, n° 324 | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 8 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 2 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 13 | Number of coins (n) | 20 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 2.5 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 1.54 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 1.63 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 25 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 11.15 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 223,000 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 13.33 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00009 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 90% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 3,587.44 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 714 kg <br /> 714 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 8,968.61 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation
References
- ^ Elayi, Josette - Elayi, Alain G. (2009), The Coinage of the Phoenician City of Tyre in the Persian Period (5th-4th cent. BCE), Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 188, Leuven, Peeters, 517 p.
- ^ Sear, David R. (1979), Greek coins and their values. Vol. II, Asia and North Africa, London, xlviii, p. 317-762
- ^ Hoover, Oliver D. (2010), The Handbook of Greek Coinage Series. 10. handbook of coins of the Southern Levant : Phoenicia, southern Koile Syria (including Judaea), and Arabia, Lancaster-London, lxxix, 201 p.
