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I strongly believe it was an oversight. For air repeaters I tend to rule it being the cost of the magazine, then refilling them is free. So you need several magazines to reload during a fight, but outside of the fight you can load them up again for free. For other weapons I'd rule it as the cost of the loaded magazine, then reloading the magazine goes by the individual ammo costs.
But yeah, as written it's funky.
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Yeah, that is a bit wonky. I haven't ever played at a table where mundane ammunition was actually tracked or paid for, so I hadn't really noticed.
I would probably to something like WatersLethe is suggesting. the 6 sp is for a spare empty magazine (one comes included with the price of the firearm). Then pellets to load in it cost at most the same as regular firearm rounds.
Firearms use bullets which are priced at 1 sp per 10 rounds, regardless of the weapon.
But an air repeater magazine is 6 sp which 'typically' holds 6 pellets, or 1 sp per pellet.
The air repeater doesn't use black powder which is the expensive component in bullets, as implied by the cost of blunderbuss and hand cannon ammunition.
Is there a particular reason why air repeater ammo, one of the weakest ranged weapons, costs 10 times the price?
Coming in a bit late; I was looking for something re this topic. I think the better comparison is to the magazines for repeating crossbows: they generally cost one silver per bolt they hold, but the actual bolts cost 1cp each. I think it was an oversight; I think the pellets should be 1cp each like almost every form of ammunition.