Tyre (Alexander the Great), gold, staters (Athena/Nike) (329-304 BCE)
From SILVER
329 BCE Gold 46,010 kg
Description
| Obverse: | Helmeted head of Athena right. |
| Reverse: | AΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ (Greek).Nike standing left, holding wreath and stylis. |
Mint and issuing power
| Mint: | Tyre | Ancient region: | Phoenicia | Modern country: Lebanon | Authority: | Alexander III the Great (Argead king, 336-323 BC), Macedonian kingdom |
Chronology
| From | 329 BCE | to | Period: Hellenistic 323-30 BC 
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Physical description
| Metal: | Gold
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Median weight in grams | 8.60 | Denomination: | stater
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Standard: | Attic |
Image
References
| Die study reference: | "[[Die study reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]1Newell 1919, p. 40-52 | ||
| Coin series reference: | "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]2HGC 10, n° 1, "[[Coin series reference" contains a listed "[" character as part of the property label and has therefore been classified as invalid.]]3Price 1991, n° 3242-3, 3247, 3251 ... 3296, 3300 | ||
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Reverse dies distribution
no distribution is available
Quantification
| Number of obverses ᵖ (o) | 20 | Number of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 8 |
| Number of reverse dies (r) | 32 | Number of coins (n) | 54 |
| Coins per obverse die (n/o) | 2.7 | Coins per reverse die (n/r) | 1.69 |
| Reverse per obverse ratio (r/o) | 1.6 | Percentage of singletons (o1) ᵖ | 40 % |
| Original number of dies (O) (Carter 1983 formula) ᵖ | 26.75 | Coins struck if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 535,000 |
| Original number of dies (O) (Esty 2011 formula) ᵖ (O) | 31.76 | Survival rate if 20,000 as average productivity per die ᵖ | 0.00010 |
| Coverage (o = % of O) (Esty 1984 formula) ᵖ (o = % of O) | 85.19% | Die productivity if survival rate 1/2,000 ᵖ | 4,037.38 |
| Weight of silver (in kg) if 20,000 coins per die (O = Carter formula) ᵖ | 46,010 kg <br /> 46,010 kg | Die productivity if survival rate 1/5,000 ᵖ | 10,093.46 |
Remarks
Most likely one single workstation Certainly military These issues were first attributed to the mint of Ake by Edward Newell and still Martin Price but reattributed to Tyre by André Lemaire and Georges Le Rider
References
- ^ Newell, Edward T. (1919), "Myriandros - Alexandria Kat'Isson", AJN 53 (2), p. 1-42, pl. 1-2.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Price, Martin Jessop (1991), The Coinage in the Name of Alexander the Great and Philip Arrhidaeus: a British Museum Catalogue, 2 vol., Zürich-London, 637 p., 637 p., clix pl.
