Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 681. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $621. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Half Chalkous (2.51 g, 1h). Tigranakert mint. Struck 69-55 BC. Draped bust right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star; two pellets to right / Tripod-lebes surmounted by holmos from which rise three laurel twigs. M&D 41 var. (no pellets, HMO in exergue); CAA 122 var. (same); AC 111 var. (same). Good VF, green patina.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.