CNG 85, Lot: 17. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ (19mm, 7.55 g, 12h). Draped bust right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with comet star between two eagles / Tyche seated right on rock pile, holding palm frond; to inner right, monogram above A; to lower right, river god Orontes swimming right. CAA 93; AC 48. VF, black patina, a few light deposits.

From the R.A. Collection.