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120 GREEK AND ROMAN COINS [bk. i
δικαιοσύνην re και φιλοτιμίαν χρήται τωι ιδίωι νομίσματι. The new
coinage is that which is classed to the second century b. c.1
§ 4. magistrates in Imperial Times.
The mention of magisterial titles is very rare before the time
of the Roman domination. The titles which are then given
are, however, not merely those of offices actually connected
with the issue of money or of eponymous offices. A man may
inscribe on coins issued by his authority any titles, however
empty, that he may chance to possess, even to the omission of
the actual title in virtue of which alone he is enabled to sign
his name.
The formulae which occur on coins in connexion with the
magistracies are of almost endless variety. In the first place
the name of the magistrate may ba
1. In the nominative ;
2. In the genitive;
(a) Alone, or with a preposition ;
(&) With a participle or noun in absolute construction, or
preceded by a preposition.
(1) στρατηγός Κλάρας, Smyrna.
' Εκατώνυμος Αάσχρίωνος, Erythrae.
(2) (α) Αιγαιανον, Lebedus.
διά ’Ορβρίου ’ϊίρωνος, Tabae (Caria).
(&) ταμία Τειμοστράτου, Rhodes.
επί Ύίΐμοθ(ου άρχοντος, Hyllarima (Caria).
στρατηγοΰντος Σωστράτου, Dionysopolis (Pl. XIV. 12).
I. The use of the nominative needs little comment. It is
very much rarer than the genitive, and would seem, as in pre-
Imperial times, to imply some special responsibility or interest
on the part of the magistrate. He may, for instance, make the
coin a means of paying a compliment to some superior person,
or to his city. In this case he uses formulae which may be
roughly classified as follows
(a) He merely states that he struck the coin. The most
curious instances of this class are those rare ones involving the
use of the word χαράττιιν as Ζώσιμος Φιλόπατρις 'ϊίροπολίΐτων ^χάραξ^ν)
1 Head, Η. Ν., ρ. 225.
δικαιοσύνην re και φιλοτιμίαν χρήται τωι ιδίωι νομίσματι. The new
coinage is that which is classed to the second century b. c.1
§ 4. magistrates in Imperial Times.
The mention of magisterial titles is very rare before the time
of the Roman domination. The titles which are then given
are, however, not merely those of offices actually connected
with the issue of money or of eponymous offices. A man may
inscribe on coins issued by his authority any titles, however
empty, that he may chance to possess, even to the omission of
the actual title in virtue of which alone he is enabled to sign
his name.
The formulae which occur on coins in connexion with the
magistracies are of almost endless variety. In the first place
the name of the magistrate may ba
1. In the nominative ;
2. In the genitive;
(a) Alone, or with a preposition ;
(&) With a participle or noun in absolute construction, or
preceded by a preposition.
(1) στρατηγός Κλάρας, Smyrna.
' Εκατώνυμος Αάσχρίωνος, Erythrae.
(2) (α) Αιγαιανον, Lebedus.
διά ’Ορβρίου ’ϊίρωνος, Tabae (Caria).
(&) ταμία Τειμοστράτου, Rhodes.
επί Ύίΐμοθ(ου άρχοντος, Hyllarima (Caria).
στρατηγοΰντος Σωστράτου, Dionysopolis (Pl. XIV. 12).
I. The use of the nominative needs little comment. It is
very much rarer than the genitive, and would seem, as in pre-
Imperial times, to imply some special responsibility or interest
on the part of the magistrate. He may, for instance, make the
coin a means of paying a compliment to some superior person,
or to his city. In this case he uses formulae which may be
roughly classified as follows
(a) He merely states that he struck the coin. The most
curious instances of this class are those rare ones involving the
use of the word χαράττιιν as Ζώσιμος Φιλόπατρις 'ϊίροπολίΐτων ^χάραξ^ν)
1 Head, Η. Ν., ρ. 225.