The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Secretary, Mr. B. V. Head. Since the publication
of his
important paper in June last, so much attention has been
directed to this series of coins that nearly eighty new
names of Ephesian magistrates have become known. As a
consequence, there are now in some of the periods into
which the coinage has been divided more names than years,
so that, though the names of many of the Eponymi appear
on the coins, it seems probable that the name of a magistrate
appears on a coin, not as Eponymus, but as a member
of a board of Prytaneis who had charge of the mint. This
slight modification but little affects the conclusions previously
arrived at by Mr. Head, and the great value of his previous
paper is enhanced and not impaired by the supplementary
knowledge now obtained.
Another paper mainly on what must be classed as Greek
numismatics is that by my son on some recent discoveries of
Illyrian coins. The coins of Lissos, and those of Skodra, of
the Macedonian type, both with and without the name of King
Genthios, are new to science, and serve in the hands of one so
well acquainted with Illyrian history as the author of this
paper to throw some light on an obscure period. The autonomous
coins of Rhizon and some of those of King Ballseus
and of one of his successors are also novel, and in their turn
illustrate the period when Illyria had already become subject to
the influence and power of Rome. What adds to the interest
of the paper is the fact that several of the coins described were
picked up by the hands of Mr. Arthur Evans himself, on the
site of the ancient Rhizon or Rhizonium.
The paper by Mr. Head on a Himyaritic tetradrachm and the
Tre"sor de San' a occupies an intermediate position between
Greek and Oriental numismatics. That a tetradrachm so closely
resembling those of Alexander the Great but bearing the name of
Ab-yatha should so long have escaped observation encourages the
hope that other coins of the same class may yet be forthcoming.
The style of art is peculiar, and could hardly have been