CNG 93, Lot: 470. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Circa 410 BC. AR Stater (19mm, 10.60 g, 1h). Horseman riding left; to upper right, eagle(?) flying left / Archer kneeling right, drawing bow, in linear square within incuse square. Cf. Casabonne type D2/G1 (for obv./rev. type); SNG France –; SNG Levante –; SNG von Aulock –; cf. Traité II 521/509 (for obv./rev. type). Near VF, toned, some porosity. An apparently unpublished early issue.

From the Kelly J. Krizan, M.D. Collection.

This early stater from Tarsos combines elements of Casabonne’s type D2 (obverse with horse in walking stance) and G1 (reverse with archer and city ethnic). Chronologically, these two periods are successive, which makes such a seeming “hybrid” reasonably possible.