Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 685. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Half Chalkous (3.75 g, 12h). Mdzbin (Nisibis) mint. Dated RY 31 (63 BC). Draped bust left, wearing four-pointed Armenian tiara / Nike standing right, holding wreath; A-Λ (date) across field. M&D 94; CAA 6 (Tigrane I); AC 23 (Tigranes I). Fine, green patina. Rare.

From the J. S. Wagner Collection.