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SATRAP of CILICIA, MAZAIOS
Silver Stater (24 mm, 8.27 gm.)  Cilicia: Tarsos: 361-334 B.C.
Reference:  SNG Levante 113; SNG BN 360.
 Left enthroned Baaltars with the head left In the right eagle scepter.  Links in the ear of corn and vine field. left in the box and sign below the  throne monogram, right in the field "Baaltars".
 A lion rips a collapsing bull, including two city walls with four towers,  about "Mazaeus, governor of Cilicia and Transeuphrates". 

The Aramaic inscription on the reverse of this stater has prompted Biblical coin  researcher David Hendin to reconsider the meaning of this coin type. It  traditionally translated as "Mazaios governor of Transeuphrates and Cilicia",  but Hendin translated it somewhat differently as "Mazaios who is over   Beyond the River and Cilicia".

D. Hendin looks at the walls, the fortifications of Jerusalem shown (Celator 6,  1922, 44). The rank of governor of Cilicia and Transeuphrates had Mazaeus since  351 BC.