Cilicia, Tarsos
Datames, Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia.
AR Stater BC 384-361/0 Struck circa 369/8-361/0 BC.
23 mm x 9.92 grams
Obverse: Baaltars seated right, torso facing, holding eagle-tipped sceptre
in right hand, grain ear and grape-bunch in left; thymiaterion to right; all within crenellated wall.
Reverse: Ana, nude, facing Datames; both have their right
arms raised; between them, thymiaterion; all
within pelleted square border within linear
border. "TDNM" ( = Datames) in Aramaic in the center
Ref: Moysey Issue 5; SNG Levante 83; SNG France
292 ; BMC Lycaonia pg. 168, 35;
SNG Copenhagen 300; SNG von Aulock 5943.
Note: Bright and Scarce. Very Fine.
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