CNG 100, Lot: 1550. Estimate $1000. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Circa 410 BC. AR Stater (22mm, 10.59 g, 9h). Horseman riding left; to upper right, eagle(?) flying left / Archer kneeling right, drawing bow; TRZ (in Aramaic) to right; 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). VF, toned, some porosity, obverse a little off center. Extremely rare issue, unpublished in the standard references.

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.