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CHRONOLOGY OF THE COINS OF CHIOS. 249on one of the three-assaria issues of much later date,but it will be noted that the presence of the star,which also figures here, is not constant. This seemsto confirm the evidence of type No. 62 a, which servedto show that the star was more probably a mint-mark121than a magistrate's symbol. Why symbols shouldsuddenly have been reintroduced on these drachmsand on some of the bronze of about the same time,after a considerable period during which their use wasdispensed with, I am unable to suggest.The name of the public benefactor in type No. 81,whom I am supposing to have been a Roman onaccount of the form in which his name iswritten, isunfortunately incomplete. Herr R. Miinsterberg, inhis most valuable catalogue of magistrates' names onGreek coins to which I have referred more than once,suggests (p. 264) that the inscription might be restoredto 3>ovp[ios re]o-o-*(os)#at/'Aoy tpiXoTrarpis, which isveryplausible. It may be remarked that some bronze coinsof Smyrna, struck during the reign of Nero (Brit Mus.Cat. Ionia, Smyrna, Nos. 285-7), bear the inscriptionA rEZZIOZ -HAOlTATPIZ on the reverse. Althoughthey are of later date than this unique coin of Chiosthere must be some connexion between the Gessiiconcerned. 122With regard to type No. 82 Dr. Imhoof-Blumerobserves in Griechische Munzen, No. 395, that thereading ZEBAZTOY is inaccurate, and suggestsZEBAZTOZ in its place. Dr. Imhoof must have seen121See remarks under type No. 72.122The Gessius of Smyrna was no doubt Gessius Florus, theprocurator of Judaea in Nero's reign, who was a native ofClazomenae.NUMISM. CHRON., VOL. XVII, SERIES IV.