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Lot # 204
Greek Asia. Cilicia, Tarsos. Tarkumuwa (Datames) Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia (384-361 BC). AR Stater. Struck circa 370 BC. Obv. Baal of Tarsos 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. Rev. 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. SNG BN 291-7; Casabonne Series 3; Moysey Issue 5. AR. 10.29 g. 24.00 mm. Brilliant and darkly toned. EF.