Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 510. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Datames, Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia. 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (10.40 gm, 12h). Struck circa 369/8-361/0 BC. "BALTRZ" ( = Baaltars) in Aramaic to left, Baaltars seated right, torso facing, holding eagle-tipped sceptre in right hand, grain ear and grape-bunch in left; thymiaterion to right; all within crenellated wall / "TDNM" ( = Datames) in Aramaic in the center, Ana, nude, facing Datames; both have their right arms raised; between them, thymiaterion; all within pelleted square border within linear border. Moysey Issue 5; SNG Levante 83; SNG France 292 (same obverse die); BMC Lycaonia pg. 168, 35; SNG Copenhagen 300; SNG von Aulock 5943. Superb EF. ($1000)