Watch List notes:

CILICIA, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames). Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 384-361/0 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 10.51 g, 6h). 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; ANA (in Aramaic) to left, thymiaterion and TRKMW (in Aramaic) between; all within square dotted border in linear border. Casabonne Series 3; Moysey Issue 5; SNG France 294 corr. (Ana's name not noted); SNG Levante –; SNG von Aulock 5948; Pozzi 2852. Good VF, toned, minor roughness at edge, a little die wear on obverse.


From the RH Collection. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part II, Sotheby's, 21 June 1990), lot 572 (realized $1760).