Head, Barclay V.: Historia numorum: a manual of Greek numismatics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1887)

INTRODUCTION.

The Magistrates’ titles which occur on the coins chiefly of the Greek Impe-
rial series may be divided into the following classes:—
I. Roman.
II. Greek (a) Municipal.
(/3) Financial.
(?) Agonistic, Sacerdotal, and Honorary.
I. Roman.
’ArOuTTaTos—Proconsul. Chiefly on the coins of the Roman Provinces of
Bithynia and Asia.
’ApTio-Tpd-nqyog—Propraetor. Thrace, Galatia, Cyrenaica.
Auo arSpes—Duumviri. This title very rarely occurs in Greek, but it is
frequent on colonial coins in Latin, as II VIRI.
’EnuTpoTTos—Procurator. Bithynia.
‘Hyep-wr or ‘Hyoup.eros—Praeses. Frequent on Thracian coins.
'lirn-iKos—Eques Eomanus. Occasional in the Province of Asia.
KopfycKouXapios] (?)—C ornicularius (Ip Adjutant, Tribune, Assistant, etc.,
Laodiceia Phrygiae.
ndrpwr—Patronus. Nicaea and Nicomedia in Bithynia, where it is applied
to the Proconsul.
ripecrfleuTqs—Legatus. Various cities of Thrace, Galatia, and Cappadocia.
Tapias—Quaestor. This title is applied both to Roman Provincial Quae-
stors, as on coins of Macedon (p. 210 sq.), and of Cyrena'ica (p. 733), and
to the Treasurers and Comptrollers of the public moneys of certain
Greek cities, such as Smyrna (p. 510), and Rhodes (p. 542).
"YiraTos—Consul, in the formula AHM. EH. YITAT. (th^npyi/dR
viraros), equivalent to the Roman TR. POT. COS. Chiefly met with on
coins of Caesareia Cappadociae, and Antiochia Syriae, but it occurs also in
Crete (p. 384) and Cyprus (p. 627).
II. Greek.
(a) Municipal.
wApxwr—Chief Magistrate. vApxa>v a'. First Archon, at cities where there
were several Archons. This title occurs very frequently throughout the
Roman Province of Asia. It is met with also at Byzantium (p. 232). On
the coins of Asander and Hygiaenon of Bosporus it is a dynastic title.
JTpaTqyos is also a title of the chief civic Magistrate of still more frequent
occurrence than that of Archon, with which it is sometimes interchange-
able. It appears to be confined to the cities of the Province of Asia. At
Smyrna this office was sometimes held for life, Srparijyos 81a /3tov (p. 510).
rpap.p,aTeus—Secretary (A. V. Townclerk, Acts xix. 35). Chief magistrate
in many cities of the Province of Asia.
ripuTavis—Prytanis, or one of a board of several Prytaneis. Chief magis-
trates of some cities of the Province of Asia.
BouXapxos—President of the BovXrj or Town Council. Mastaura Lydiae
(Mion. iv. p. 234).
Nop.o0e-rqs—Lawgiver. Laodiceia Phrygiae.
Ba<r[iXeus] (?)—This word as a magisterial title occurs on certain coins of
Byzantium (p. 232).