Consecutive primes with the same terminal digits

In response to a problem posed by Mark Underwood on the "Prime Numbers" Yahoo!Group.

139 and 149 are the smallest consecutive primes with the same terminal digit, so a(2)=139.

Here's a table of the smallest starting points for sequences of increasing length runs of primes with the same terminal digits:

12
2139
31627
418839
5123229
6776257
73873011
823884639
936539311
10196943081
11452942827
1273712513057
13154351758091 / 177746482483
14154351758091
154010803176619
166987191424553 (Resta, Nov 2004)
17???

I'd expect these to grow slightly faster than exponentially, so here's a log-plot of those values (doesn't include the 16):

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