Armenian Coins from the J.S. Wagner Collection

217, Lot: 125. Estimate $100. Sold for $315. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Chalkous (19mm, 8.33 g, 12h). Maskos (Damaskos) mint. Struck 72-70 BC. Head of Tigranes right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star and eagle / Tyche seated left on rock, extending arm and holding cornucopia; [Θ]E/OΦ to outer left; below, river-god swimming right. Nercessian, Tigranes 6; M&D 19; CAA 112; AC 61. Fine, green patina.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.