Staters of the Datames // Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1527. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GREEK. Asia Minor. AR Staters of Cilicia, Tarsos. All coins: Datames. Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. Baaltars seated right, torso facing, holding grain ear and grape-bunch in left hand, eagle-tipped sceptre in right arm; thymiaterion to right; all within crenellated wall / Ana, nude, facing Datames; both have their right arms raised; between them, thymiaterion; all within square dotted border within linear border. One a variety with an eagle below the throne of Baaltars. Average VF, rough surfaces, harshly cleaned. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. 11 coins in lot.