Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1473. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Pharnabazos, Satrap. 379-374 BC. AR Stater (10.63 gm). Three-quarter facing female head, head turned slightly left, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace / 'FRNBZW' in Aramaic left, bearded and helmeted male head (Ares?) right; monogram before. SNG von Aulock 5925 = Moysey, "The Silver Stater Issues of Pharnabazos and Datames from the Mint of Tarsus in Cilicia," in ANSMN 31 (1986), pg. 38, 56a (this coin); SNG Levante -; SNG France 248. Nice EF, lightly toned with golden iridescence around the devices. ($1000)

From the Robert Schonwalter Collection. Ex von Aulock Collection, 5925.