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[No. 2, 
W. F. Prideaux —On the Coins of Charihael. 
Kariba-el Wattar Yehan’am. 
(The inscriptions are written in Hebrew characters, as Himyaritic type 
is not procurable.) 
1. (Plate X). Obv. Head to right, beardless, the hair arranged in 
three stiff corkscrew curls ; round it the inscription and the 
monogram r~h ; below head ^TH, to right 3P- 
Rev. Head as in obv.; above the head the monogram , behind the 
head the monogram ^ ; the right side of the coin in grenetis. 
Ar. Size: *6 in. Weight: 23*673 gr. = 1*534 grammes. 
2. Obv. Head as in No. 1; around head the inscription JIT bull? 
and the monogram ^|£} ; below head n't, to right 
Rev. Head as in No. 1 ; behind head the monogram se ; the right 
side of the coin in grenetis. 
Ar. Size : *58 in. Weight, 24*49 gr. = 1*587 grammes. 
On the obverse the name of the king and the first three letters of his 
epithet QV3HP are given, below is the name of the mint-place Raiddn. I 
am unable to explain the signification of the monogram cb which is also 
found in two other coins in my possession (one of ’Umdan Yehaqba^A and 
one of Yada’-ab Yenaf) or of the symbol ?P which is found on all the 
Baidan coins of this type that I have seen. It has also been discovered on 
some of the sculptured Himyaritic inscriptions. 
The monogram or which appears on the reverse can be resolved 
into the letters TTH Wattar, the surname of Kariba-el. The other mono¬ 
gram on the reverse of No. 1 I am unable to explain. 
It was my original intention to have added a few remarks upon the 
subject of the Himyaritic coinage generally, but within the last few days 
I have been favoured with the proof-sheets of a paper entitled Neue hirnja - 
rische Munzen by Dr. J. H. Mordtmann of Constantinople, which is on 
the point of publication, and which treats the question in such an exhaus¬ 
tive manner that any observations of mine would be superfluous. It 
will be sufficient to state that the numismatic system of the 
may be classified into three divisions ; the first consisting of thick coins 
struck in imitation of the drachmas of Athens with the head of Athena, 
generally countermarked with a Himyaritic character, on the obverse, and 
a rude imitation of the owl with the letters A©E on the reverse ; the second 
consisting of thin coins of still ruder execution, which are designed upon 
the Athenian tetradrachms of more recent date and are sometimes varied 
by the head of Augustus on the obverse ; and the third comprising the 
series of small hollow-struck indigenous coins to which those which I have 
exhibited belong. The first two classes have been very ably treated by Mr. 
Barclay Y. Head in the Numismatic Chronicle , N. S. Yol. XVIII, Pages 
