Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 446. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (10.39 g, 12h). Struck circa 370 BC. Baaltars seated right, torso facing, holding grain ear, grape-bunch, and eagle-tipped sceptre; zrtl[b to right; all within crenellated wall / Ana, standing right, facing Datames, standing left; thymiaterion between, wmdrt to outer right; all within square dotted border in linear border. Casabonne series 3; Moysey issue 5; SNG France 290-7 var. (position of name); SNG Levante 84. EF, a few light surface marks, traces of die rust on obverse.

Ex Hirsch 236 (24 September 2004), lot 1996.