Triton XIX, Lot: 274. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 10.86 g, 4h). Struck circa 370 BC. Baaltars seated right, head and torso facing, holding grain ear and grape bunch in extended right hand, cradling eagle-tipped scepter in left arm; B’LTRZ (in Aramaic) to left, thymiaterion in background; all within crenellated wall / Ana, nude, standing right, extending right hand and pointing at the head of Tarkumuwa, standing left, wearing chlamys, leaning on staff in left hand, right hand raised; thymiaterion and TRKMW (in Aramaic) between; all within square dotted border in linear border. Casabonne Series 3; Moysey Issue 5, Var. 1, dies 26/– (unlisted rev. die); SNG France 292 (same obv. die); SNG Levante 83 = SNG von Aulock 5944; SNG von Aulock 5943 (same obv. die). EF, toned, some die wear on obverse, scratch under tone on reverse.