The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

COINAGE OF EPHESUS. 15
names of as many as five occur on the coins of precisely
these same periods, is quite enough to prove that the
eponymous Prytanis frequently signed the money. But
as there are more names on the coins in some periods than
there could possibly have been Eponymi, it likewise
follows that the annual chief magistrate cannot have
signed in his character of Eponymus, but simply as one
of the board of Prytaneis, either in turn with the others
or in conjunction with one of them, or in virtue of some
commission, office, or duty, which was often held by him
but was not his sole prerogative.
That there were some-
times in one and the same year several issues from the
Ephesian mint, or contemporary emissions from different
officinse of that mint, each issue bearing a different signa-
ture, is proved by an examination of the dated cistophori.
It would seem, therefore, that whenever a fresh issue was
necessary, a magistrate, or perhaps two magistrates at
different officinae, were required to place their names upon
the dies, and that moreover one of these magistrates was
frequently the eponymous Prytanis of the year.
Beyond this it would be unsafe to speculate until we
know more of the constitution
mous period.
of Ephesus in the autono-
The following are the additional coins in the various
Periods :
PERIOD III. CIRC. B.C. 415 394.
Obv. E . Bee with curved wings ; beneath,
TIMAPXOZ.
Rev. Incuse square quartered by narrow bands.
M. 4. Wt. 115 grs.
[Collection of Mr. Whittall, of Smyrna].
This coin gives the magistrate's name, TIMAPXOZ, in full,
cf. p. 23 in separate copies = Num. Chron., N.S., vol. xx. p. 107,
No. 8. PI. I. 17.