Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 282. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (10.38 g, 5h). Struck circa 375 BC. Baaltars seated right, torso facing, holding grain ear, grape-bunch, and eagle-tipped scepter; Aramaic B’LTRZ to right, facing bucranium below throne; all within crenellated wall / Satrap seated right, wearing Persian dress, holding arrow; Aramaic TRKMW to left, winged solar disk to upper right, bow to lower right. Casabonne type 2; Moysey issue 6; SNG France 284-8; SNG Levante 88; SNG Copenhagen 295-6; SNG von Aulock 5952. EF, toned, slightly weak obverse strike. Good metal.