Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 350. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (10.53 g, 1h). Struck circa 370 BC. Baaltars seated right, head and torso facing, holding eagle-tipped scepter in right hand, grain ear and grape-bunch in left; BLTRZ in Aramaic to left, thymiaterion to right; all within crenelated wall / Ana, standing right, facing Datames, standing left; ANA in Aramaic to left, thymiaterion and TRDMW in Aramaic between; all within dotted square border in linear border. Casabonne type 3; Moysey issue 5; SNG France 298 var. (eagle under throne); SNG Levante -; SNG von Aulock 5948-9; SNG Copenhagen 301-2; BMC -. EF, toned, struck from worn reverse die.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Triton VI (14 January 2003), lot 439.