CNG 85, Lot: 34. Estimate $500. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Artaxias II. 34-20 BC. Æ (12mm, 2.94 g, 12h). Head right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with comet star / Grape bunch; [AP]TAΞEP[Ξ] to left. Vardanyan, Dated 2 (same dies as coin illustrated); CAA -; AC -. VF, brown patina, slightly off-center. Extremely rare, with only one other published example (and the only with a partially-legible legend).

From the R.A. Collection.