Triton XVII, Lot: 351. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 10.30 g, 11h). Struck circa 375 BC. Baaltars seated right, torso facing, cradling eagle-tipped scepter in right arm, holding grain ear and grape bunch in extended left hand; B’LTRZ in Aramaic to left, thymiaterion to right; below throne, forepart of sphinx right; all within crenelated wall / Satrap, wearing Persian dress, seated right, inspecting arrow held in both hands; TRDMW in Aramaic to left, winged solar disk to upper right, bow to lower right. Casabonne Type 2; Moysey Issue 6, 17a corr. (same dies; sphinx not dog); SNG France –; SNG Levante –; SNG von Aulock –; Pozzi 2849. Good VF, toned, struck from worn obverse die. Very rare variety and better than the published examples, clarifying the identification of the sphinx below the throne.

From the RAJ Collection, purchased in 2000 from F. Shore.