Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 680. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Chalkous (5.90 g, 12h). Uncertain Armenian mint. Struck 70-66 BC. Draped bust right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara [decorated with star and two eagles]; to left, monogram within triangular incuse countermark / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding palm; to lower right, river god Orontes swimming right, head facing. M&D 24; CAA 92; AC 55. VF, brown surfaces.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.