179, Lot: 93. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SATRAPS of CARIA. Hekatomnos. Circa 392/1-377/6 BC. AR Diobol (10mm, 1.29 g). Mylasa mint. Bearded head of Hekatomnos right / Forepart of bull left; E on shoulder. Traité II 2494 (as Pergamon); SNG Copenhagen -. Near VF, toned. Rare.

As part of the Achaemenid Empire, Caria in the fourth century BC was under the rule of a family of semi-independent satraps known collectively as the Hekatomnids, named after the dynasty's founder, Hekatomnos. Born in Mylasa, Artaxerxes II appointed H