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Triton XXIV  19-20 Jan 2021
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Lot 739

Estimate: 1500 USD
Price realized: 2250 USD
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CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (25mm, 10.48 g, 7h). Struck circa 375 BC. Baal of Tarsos seated right, 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 to right; below throne, lion seated right; all within crenellated wall / Satrap, wearing Persian dress, testing arrow held in both hands seated right, seated right on diphros; TRKMW (in Aramaic) to left, winged solar disk with volutes to upper right, bow to lower right; c/m: bull standing right within incuse square. Casabonne Series 2; Moysey Issue 6, obv. die 4; SNG BN 283; SNG Levante 85–8 var. (symbol below throne); McClean 3; Winterthur 4666 (same obv. die). Toned, small test cut on reverse. EF. Struck with artistic dies.

From the JTB Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 275 (22 September 2011), lot 3972; Lanz 24 (25 April 1983), lot 367.
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