MK-B | Persischer Satrap: Tarkuwarma-Datames 378-372 v. Chr.

Image files are licensed Public Domain Mark 1.0. Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, 18201380. Photographs by Lutz-Jürgen Lübke (Lübke und Wiedemann).

Persischer Satrap: Tarkuwarma-Datames 378-372 v. Chr.
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 242, BM-36/01 Usurpers
Obverse	Kopf der Nymphe Arethusa (?) in der Vorderansicht.
Reverse	TRDMW [Tarkuwarma in aramäischer Schrift]. Kopf eines bärtigen Kriegers (Datames?) mit Helm nach l.
Sitter	Tarkuwarma-Datames
Class/status	Ancient Ruler's issue
Authority	Tarkuwarma-Datames
Date	378-372 v. Chr. Classical
Denomination	Stater Stater Literally the resp. one unit. Hence designating the main unit within a certain currency of a Greek city or realm. The silver tetradrachm of Athens or the tridrachm of Corinth hence are also the stater within each denominational system. The main meaning though, especially in modern scholarship, is that of a denomination in gold of about 8.6 grams in the Attic standard.
	Silver ; 10,56 g; 22 mm; 6 h
Production	struck
Mint	Tarsus
Region	Cilicia
Country	Turkey
Publications	SNG Aulock Nr. 5934-5935; SNG Kopenhagen Nr. 274-276; SNG Paris Cilicie Nr. 274-277; SNG Schweiz I Nr. 80.
Web Portals	https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/datames_satrap_tarsus_moysey_1986_4
Item	Coin
Department	Antiquity, Greek, Archaic and Classical periods
Vendor (to prev. Owner)	Rollin & Feuardent (Paris)
Accession	1900 Imhoof-Blumer
previous Owner	Friedrich Imhoof-Blumer - 1900
Object number	18201380
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