Watch List notes:

CILICIA, Tarsos. Mazaios. Satrap of Cilicia, 361/0-334 BC. AR Stater (25.5mm, 10.88 g, 7h). Baaltars seated left, his head and torso facing, holding eagle, grain ear, and grape bunch in extended right hand, lotus-tipped scepter in left; R (in Aramaic) to left, M (in Aramaic) below throne, B'LTRZ (in Aramaic) to right / Lion attacking stag left; MZDY (in Aramaic) above, grain ear and Z (in Phoenician[?]) below. Casabonne Series 2, Group B; SNG France –; SNG Levante –; SNG von Aulock 5959; Sunrise –. EF, some light deposits on obverse, slight die shift on reverse. Well centered on an unusually broad flan. Very rare with grain ear on reverse.


From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 602, purchased from Spink & Son, 2 September 1989.