Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 565. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1915. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.72 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Draped bust right, wearing tiara with star and eagles / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding branch; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; monogram to inner right and on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 1 (A14/P118b - this coin, illustrated) = Y.T. Nercessian, “A Small Hoard of Tigranes II the Great Tetradrachms” in ANJ XXVIII/4 (December 2002), dies A13/P100c (this coin); CAA 17; AC 31. Good VF, light porosity.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Pegasi VIII (29 April 2003), lot 171.