Cilicia (Tarsos) AR Stater ND (c. 378-372 BC) - Datames, Satrap of Cilicia and Cappadocia (384-362 BC)
10.30g. 23mm. AU/XF. A gorgeous, well-centered exemplar with well-defined relief details, retaining mint luster beneath a light old patina; a very beautiful coin.
Obv.: Baaltars seated right, torso facing, holding grain ear and grape-bunch in left hand, eagle-tipped sceptre in right arm; 'BLTRZ' in Aramaic to left, thymiaterion to right.
Rev: Ana and Datames standing facing each other, both have their right arms raised; thymiaterion and 'TRDMW' (Datames) in Aramaic between them; all within square border.
SNG France 292; SNG Copenhagen 301.
