Analysed coins Analysis

Analysed coins

Coin catalogue section:	Aphrodisias
Coin corpus datasets:	Aphrodisias, Staters; Aphrodisias, Obols

The numbers of analysed coins are given in Table 1. Coins whose weight is unknown or unreliable, or that are excessively corroded or damaged, are excluded from the analysis.

Corpus	Number of coins as of 30 October 2025
	Total	Excluded	analysed
Aphrodisias, Staters	4		4
Aphrodisias, Obols	21		21

Table 1: Numbers of analysed coins

Analysis

Descriptive statistics for staters and obols are presented in Table 2. Figure 1 shows the relative frequencies of stater weights (ranging from 9.85 to 10.00 g in increments of 0.05 g) against the left axis and their cumulative distribution against the right axis. Figure 2 shows the relative frequencies of obol weights (ranging from 0.40 to 0.85 g in increments of 0.05 g) against the left axis and their cumulative distribution against the right axis. The single specimen of Type 2a is characterized by a very low weight of 0.40 g and is therefore not included in either the histogram or the cumulative distribution. Its weight is represented by the red circle on the horizontal axis.

Statistics	Staters	Obols
Number of coins:	4	21
Mean:	9.93	0.62
Standard deviation:	0.04	0.10
Interquartile range:	0.07	0.10
Skewness:	0.28	0.07
Kurtosis:	1.57	3.14
Minimum:	9.88	0.40
25th percentile:	9.89	0.57
Median:	9.92	0.63
75th percentile:	9.96	0.67
Maximum:	9.98	0.83

Table 2: Descriptive statistics

Figure 1: Staters, relative frequency histogram and cumulative distribution

Figure 2: Obols, relative frequency histogram and cumulative distribution