Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 829. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Soloi. Uncertain satrap. Circa 380-333 BC. AR Stater (9.85 g, 1h). Bearded head of Herakles right, lion's skin tied around neck / Head of satrap right, wearing Persian headdress; S-O-L-I-K-O-N faintly visible around. SNG France 160 (same obv. die); SNG Levante 50; Winzer 10.5. Good VF, toned, some roughness and a couple die breaks on obverse.

Winzer's attribution to Tiribazos is based on the similarity of this coin's portrait to others bearing that satrap's name. However, as the date of this issue, 380-333 BC, falls after the conclusion of Tiribazos' tenure as satrap in 385 BC, it is difficult to assign this issue to him. Winzer's own conclusion about the satrapal portrait on his 10.4, which he calls an "idealisiertes Satrapenportrait," further undercuts the attribution to Tiribazos. Given the dating of this issue it is possible that the portrait is of Autophradates, or perhaps an idealized portrait of the great king himself in satrapal garb (cf. the Alexander Mosaic from Herculaneum).