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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24828891, member: 26430&quot;]Oh! Apologies: Once again, I read too quickly. You said you acquired it mid-1990s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Noticing that, it could show up in a Coin Hoards report (i had already checked the recent Coin Hoards X, 2010), maybe in Coin Hoards VIII or IX. I&#039;ll give a look &amp; let you know if I see anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back then it was indeed quite scarce-to-rare, so it would be noted. Not sure it would make it into some of the major auction catalogs, but I could see it being plated in certain sales.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you remember where you bought it? Brute force checking is too hard for a single coin but a clue can narrow it down.</p><p><br /></p><p>I will look in a couple likely sources: At that time, the Hunt brothers, and Athena Fund were buying up a lot of the new finds. (I found my Tarsus stater in the 1993 Athena Fund liquidation sales from Sotheby&#039;s.) One of the later NFA catalogs might be plausible too.</p><p><br /></p><p>Update 1: Wow, not a single specimen of this type in the three 1993 Athena Fund sales, which included hundreds of Cilician &amp; Tarsus Staters. Interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>Update 2: Again, not a single specimen of this type in any of the four Nelson Bunker Hunt sales at Sotheby in 1991.</p><p><br /></p><p>Update 3: Coin Hoards 9.380 (&quot;Nagidos, 1989/90&quot; hoard) = CH 8.91 (&quot;Southern Cilicia, 1989/90&quot;), reportedly included 27 Tarsus AR Staters &amp; was dispersed in trade. Burial described as c. 380 BCE, which is consistent with this type of Tarsus Stater.</p><p>Published: Levante &quot;Le Tresor de Nagidos,&quot; in Amandry &amp; LeRider, 1994, <i>Tresors et circulation monetaire en Anatolie antique</i>. (I don&#039;t have this ref.; not available online, to my knowledge.)</p><p><i>Well worth considering this possibility.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Two other possibilities:</p><p>CH 9.393 (Unknown findspot, 1983), CH 9.394 (Unknown findpot, c. 1988/9), both &quot;to be published by A. Meadows,&quot; also had 18 and 12 Tarsos Staters (don&#039;t know what type), and were dispersed in commerce.</p><p><br /></p><p>**</p><p><br /></p><p>Also: If the 1990s purchase date is correct, I&#039;m now thinking this was quite a rare and notable coin at the time. I don&#039;t have SNG von Aulock, but he had at least one of these (SNG vA 5319). According to <a href="http://isegrim.dasr.de/isegrim_neu/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://isegrim.dasr.de/isegrim_neu/" rel="nofollow">ISEGRIM</a> (text only, notes 8 museums specimens), Hans von Aulock&#039;s specimen weighed 10.09g.</p><p><br /></p><p>If that&#039;s close to yours, I would definitely want to get a look at the plate to see if it&#039;s the same coin, that would be great. The timing would fit the early SNG vA dispersal. (But it would be more darkly toned, unless cleaned later, since he would&#039;ve acquired it by the early 1960s.)</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Anyone with an SNG von Aulock set willing to check the photo and see if it&#039;s the same coin? (<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/finding-provenance.403741/page-2#post-24820094" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/finding-provenance.403741/page-2#post-24820094">OP photo/comment</a>)</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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