Bronze coins

Analysed coins Analysis

Analysed coins

Coin catalogue section: Holmoi
Coin corpus datasets: Holmoi, Group 2

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
Holmoi, Group 2, bronze coins 8 8

Table 1: Numbers of analysed coins

Analysis

Box plots1 and basic descriptive statistics for bronze units (Type 2.5) and half units (Type 2.6) are presented in Figure 1 and Table 2, respectively. Type 2.6 is represented by a single specimen weighing 0.77 g.

Figure 1: Box plots

Figure 1: Box plots of bronze types

Statistics Type 2.5 Type 2.6
Number of coins: 7 1
Mean: 1.45 0.77
Standard deviation: 0.35
Interquartile range: 0.62
Skewness: 0.05
Kurtosis: 1.41
Minimum: 1.01
25th percentile: 1.15
Median: 1.42 0.77
75th percentile: 1.77
Maximum: 1.90

Table 2: Descriptive statistics of bronze types

Figure 2 presents the relative frequency histogram of Type 2.5. The bars represent the relative frequencies of weights from 0.70 to 1.90 g in increments of 0.10 g, while the weight of the only known specimen of Type 2.6 is represented by the red circle on the horizontal axis. The cumulative distribution of Type 2.5 is shown in Figure 3, where the weight of the single specimen of Type 2.6 is again represented by the red circle on the horizontal axis.

Figure 2: Relative frequency histogram of bronze types

Figure 2: Relative frequency histogram of bronze types

Figure 3: Cumulative distribution of bronze types

Figure 3: Cumulative distribution of bronze types

1The bottom and top of each box are the 25th and 75th percentiles of the dataset, respectively (the lower and upper quartiles). Thus, the height of the box corresponds to the interquartile range (IQR). The red line inside the box indicates the median. Whiskers (the dashed lines extending above and below the box) indicate variability outside the upper and lower quartiles. Above the upper quartile, a distance of 1.5 times the IQR is measured, and a whisker is drawn up to the largest observed data point in the dataset that falls within this distance. Similarly, below the lower quartile, a distance of 1.5 times the IQR is measured, and a whisker is drawn down to the smallest observed data point in the dataset that falls within this distance. Observations beyond the whisker length are marked as outliers and are represented by small red circles.

 

5 August 2023 – 20 September 2026