Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 683. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $175. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Half Chalkous (2.96 g, 1h). Tigranakert mint. Struck 69-55 BC. Draped bust right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star between two eagles / Cornucopia; Δ to inner left, H/A to inner right. M&D 46 var. (Δ/H to inner left); CAA 105 var. (no A); AC 96. VF, dark green patina. Very rare.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.