CNG 100, Lot: 1551. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Pharnabazos. Persian military commander, 380-374/3 BC. AR Stater (22.5mm, 10.80 g, 7h). Struck circa 380-379 BC. Baaltars seated left, holding lotus tipped scepter / Helmeted and bearded male head (Ares?) left. Casabonne Series 4; Moysey Issue 2; SNG France 251–4 var. (legend on rev.); cf. SNG Levante 71–2 var. (same). EF, toned, a little off center on obverse. Very rare with short legend on reverse, only two noted by Moysey.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Olga H. Knopke Collection (Glendining’s, with Baldwin’s, 10 December 1986), lot 323.