Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 684. Estimate $150. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009. Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Chalkous (6.39 g, 12h). Artashat mint. Struck 70-55 BC. Draped bust right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara [decorated with star between two eagles] / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding palm; to lower right, river god Orontes swimming right, head facing; to inner right, monogram above A. M&D 85; CAA 93; AC 48. VF, dark green patina.
From the J. S. Wagner Collection.