Pupienus and the year of the Six Emperors

Oh, here is the more recent ERIC-II Rarity List ... which has a total number of coins by a certain ruler, this includes all obverse and reverse types as well as varieties.

NOTE: It was Gil-galad that kindly posted it in a previous thread (thanks Daryl)

RULER - RECORDS - % of total - RARITY

1 Constantine I 37428 5.611 MC
2 Trajan 23970 3.593 MC
3 Gordian III 23811 3.569 MC
4 Hadrian 23442 3.514 MC
5 Antoninus Pius 21400 3.208 MC
6 Augustus 20021 3.001 MC
7 Constantius II 19395 2.907 MC
8 Septimius Severus 18340 2.749 MC
9 Gallienus 16139 2.419 MC
10 Caracalla 15350 2.301 MC
11 Probus 15171 2.274 MC
12 Severus Alexander 14992 2.247 MC
13 Vespasian 14978 2.245 MC
14 Marcus Aurelius 14959 2.242 VC
15 Philip I 11653 1.747 VC
16 Anonymous 11480 1.721 VC
17 Domitian 11411 1.711 VC
18 Constantine II 11155 1.672 VC
19 Aurelian 10059 1.508 VC
20 Licinius I 10017 1.502 VC
21 Julia Domna 10015 1.501 VC
22 Nero 9714 1.456 VC
23 Diocletian 9052 1.357 VC
24 Commodus 8950 1.342 VC
25 Maximian 8821 1.322 VC
26 Claudius I 8569 1.285 VC
27 Faustina II 8474 1.270 VC
28 Postumus 8439 1.265 VC
29 Claudius II 8195 1.228 VC
30 Elagabalus 7988 1.197 VC
31 Constans I 7909 1.186 VC
32 Faustina I 6909 1.036 VC
33 Valens 6567 0.984 VC
34 Crispus 6275 0.941 C
35 Valentinian I 6167 0.924 C
36 Tiberius 5925 0.888 C
37 Geta 5498 0.824 C
38 Trajan Decius 5450 0.817 C
39 Julian II 5372 0.805 C
40 Maximinus I 5364 0.804 C
41 Titus 5132 0.769 C
42 Lucius Verus 5034 0.755 C
43 Nerva 4597 0.689 C
44 Theodosius I 4552 0.682 C
45 Arcadius 4325 0.648 C
46 Galerius 4165 0.624 C
47 Valerian I 3953 0.593 C
48 Gratian 3837 0.575 C
49 Julia Mamaea 3823 0.573 C
50 Philip II 3670 0.550 C
51 Maximinus II 3656 0.548 C
52 Constantius I 3649 0.547 C
53 Salonina 3318 0.497 C
54 Honorius 3289 0.493 C
55 Trebonianus Gallus 3215 0.482 C
56 Magnentius 3172 0.476 C
57 Caligula 3066 0.460 C
58 Victorinus 2991 0.448 C
59 Otacilia Severa 2757 0.413 C
60 Helena 2609 0.391 C
61 Theodosius II 2530 0.379 C
62 Lucilla 2526 0.379 C
63 Tacitus 2460 0.369 C
64 Tetricus I 2450 0.367 LC
65 Galba 2421 0.363 LC
66 Maxentius 2414 0.362 LC
67 Anastasius I 2409 0.361 LC
68 Vitellius 2386 0.358 LC
69 Valentinian II 2258 0.338 LC
70 Macrinus 2164 0.324 LC
71 Agrippa 2133 0.320 LC
72 Sabina 2126 0.319 LC
73 Volusian 2046 0.307 LC
74 Jovian 2034 0.305 LC
75 Carinus 1996 0.299 LC
76 Licinius II 1915 0.287 LC
77 Clodius Albinus 1909 0.286 LC
78 Julia Maesa 1897 0.284 LC
79 Carausius 1840 0.276 LC
80 Herennia Etruscilla 1764 0.264 LC
81 Crispina 1759 0.264 LC
82 Constantius Gallus 1566 0.235 LC
83 Numerian 1504 0.225 LC
84 Magnus Maximus 1471 0.221 LC
85 Aelius 1468 0.220 LC
86 Leo I 1379 0.207 LC
87 Severina 1360 0.204 LC
88 Carus 1340 0.201 LC
89 Tetricus II 1294 0.194 LC
90 Plautilla 1283 0.192 LC
91 Allectus 1235 0.185 LC
92 Germanicus 1215 0.182 LC
93 Quintillus 1176 0.176 LC
94 Florian 1093 0.164 LC
95 Pertinax 1074 0.161 LC
96 Pupienus 1058 0.159 LC
97 Herennius Etruscus 1050 0.157 LC
98 Delmatius 1044 0.157 LC
99 Galeria Valeria 980 0.147 S
100 Maximus Caesar 945 0.142 S
101 Zeno 945 0.142 S
102 Fausta 938 0.141 S
103 Procopius 935 0.140 S
104 Severus II 922 0.138 S
105 Decentius 913 0.137 S
106 Vetranio 906 0.136 S
107 Otho 870 0.130 S
108 Marcian 861 0.129 S
109 Diadumenian 841 0.126 S
110 Valerian II 823 0.123 S
111 Valentinian III 814 0.122 S
112 Aelia Flaccilla 805 0.121 S
113 Balbinus 780 0.117 S
114 Julia Soaemias 759 0.114 S
115 Julia Paula 707 0.106 S
116 Orbiana 659 0.099 S
117 Antonia 650 0.097 S
118 Aemilian 638 0.096 S
119 Hostilian 605 0.091 S
120 Vabalathus 577 0.086 S
121 Mariniana 515 0.077 S
122 Saloninus 514 0.077 S
123 Nero Claudius Drusus 492 0.074 S
124 Pescennius Niger 483 0.072 S
125 Theodora 465 0.070 S
126 Julia Titi 460 0.069 S
127 Drusus 459 0.069 S
128 Marius 445 0.067 S
129 Didius Julianus 440 0.066 VS
130 Livia 421 0.063 VS
131 Agrippina I 388 0.058 VS
132 Eudoxia 383 0.057 VS
133 Magnia Urbica 363 0.054 VS
134 Hanniballianus 360 0.054 VS
135 Paulina 352 0.053 VS
136 Flavius Victor 333 0.050 VS
137 Macrianus 320 0.048 VS
138 Quietus 313 0.047 VS
139 Aquilia Severa 294 0.044 VS
140 Eugenius 278 0.042 VS
141 Gordian II 269 0.040 VS
142 Gordian I 242 0.036 VS
143 Johannes 220 0.033 VS
144 Romulus 203 0.030 VS
145 Marciana 192 0.029 VS
146 Didia Clara 189 0.028 VS
147 Manlia Scantilla 184 0.028 VS
148 Domitia 169 0.025 VS
149 Constantine III 159 0.024 VS
150 Laelianus 158 0.024 VS
151 Basiliscus 143 0.021 VS
152 Eudocia 140 0.021 VS
153 Anthemius 138 0.021 VS
154 Julian I 120 0.018 VS
155 Pulcheria 120 0.018 VS
156 Plotina 113 0.017 R
157 Agrippina II 105 0.016 R
158 Galla Placidia 101 0.015 R
159 Nigrinian 95 0.014 R
160 Majorian 92 0.014 R
161 Domitius Domitianus 89 0.013 R
162 Libius Severus 81 0.012 R
163 Matidia 78 0.012 R
164 Alexander 63 0.009 R
165 Pacatian 60 0.009 R
166 Julius Nepos 58 0.009 R
167 Verina 55 0.008 R
168 Tranquillina 49 0.007 R
169 Domitilla II 47 0.007 R
170 Jovinus 47 0.007 R
171 Caius Caesar 44 0.007 R
172 Martinian 40 0.006 R
173 Zenonis 39 0.006 R
174 Honoria 38 0.006 R
175 Nepotian 36 0.005 R
176 Britannicus 35 0.005 R
177 Clodius Macer 35 0.005 R
178 Domitilla I 34 0.005 R
179 Maximus 30 0.004 R
180 Leo II 29 0.004 R
181 Cornelia Supera 28 0.004 VR
182 Licinia Eudoxia 24 0.004 VR
183 Priscus Attalus 24 0.004 VR
184 Uranius Antoninus 24 0.004 VR
185 Dryantilla 23 0.003 VR
186 Regalianus 23 0.003 VR
187 Zenobia 23 0.003 VR
188 Valerius Valens 22 0.003 VR
189 Romulus Augustus 18 0.003 VR
190 Constantius III 17 0.003 VR
191 Petronius Maximus 17 0.003 VR
192 Avitus 15 0.002 VR
193 Jotapian 15 0.002 VR
194 Annia Faustina 6 0.001 XR
195 Euphemia 5 0.001 XR
196 Glycerius 5 0.001 XR
197 Ariadne 4 0.001 XR
198 Constans II 4 0.001 XR
199 Olybrius 4 0.001 XR
200 Sebastianus 2 0.000 XR
201 Proculus 1 0.000 XR
202 Saturninus 1 0.000 XR
203 Constantia 0 0.000 NA
204 Silbannacus 0 0.000 NA
205 Domitian II 0 0.000 NA
206 Leontius I 0 0.000 NA

Sum 667076 100.000
Count 206
Mean 3254.029
Variance 5520.444
All figures coinvac.com

 

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Again, that seemed just the stats of a certain pool, and not even a very large pool. 667076?

 

A survey of 667,076 coins is a huge labour-intensive survey. What would satisfy you Brassnautilus?

 

that number is tiny for the matter in concern, mathematically, and the table has very little meaning. I already told you there are 80ish Macer and it recorded a total of 35, without explaining how that number was obtained. What does that mean? What significance does that number carry?

The amount of work has no relationship to whether the result was useful or meaningful. What do you want me to say? Sic vita est...

 

p.s
living in the year of 2016 you should understand full well that not all the work are done manually by a person with a fountain pen and piece of paper. How did you even come to the conclusion that gathering that 667,076 entries was a "huge labour intensive task"? I just did my 2015 in-state sales tax report last night, over 200,000 entries and took me less than 10 minutes?

 

*sigh*

It's hardly a ten minute automated task.

A survey of the flea markets skews the results towards the more common coins. The auction houses that sell the most expensive coins are going to skew the results in the other direction. To get something more accurate, you have to combine the results of all the venues into one big database.

The author Rasiel says it is the "biggest project" he's ever undertaken - consisting of "gathering the records, classifying and re-classifying them ten different ways, pruning out the bad stuff, good old fashioned manual data entry to get obscure datasets and on and on a tedious list of chores to arrive at a good distribution histogram capable of being tested against."

All this, just so you can sit on your throne and call it BS. If you have a better solution, why don't you email your suggestions to Ras?

 

I'm getting extremely psyched for your sweet analysis, brassnautilus ...

=> it sounds like you're definitely the right fella for this chore (we need a savvy computer-head to gather-up another sweet data-point)

Oh, and if there's anyway that I could help-out, then you should ask Bing for a hand (he is always willing to jump-in and get his hands dirty)



Oh, and I sure hope that we're not getting anybody's feathers flustered?! ... you can either enjoy that some dude has made an effort to gather some info, or you can/should ignore it ... or again, if possible, somebody with some sweet skills should take-on this project and then sell a "Red Book for Ancients" and make a few denarii ... sadly, I am not the dude for this particular chore (*sigh*)