Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 834. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Datames, satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia. 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (10.36 g, 8h). Struck during the Satraps' Revolt, circa 369/8-361/0 BC. Baaltars seated right, torso facing, holding grain ear, grape-bunch, and eagle-tipped sceptre; star and thymiaterion to right; all within crenellated wall / Ana, nude, facing Datames; ANA’s name to left, thymiaterion between; all within square dotted border in linear border. Moysey Issue 5, 38; SNG France -; SNG Levante -; SNG von Aulock 5946 var. (without ANA’s name); SNG von Post 446. Good VF, light die rust. light cleaning marks. Very rare issue with the star.