217, Lot: 126. Estimate $100. Sold for $68. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Chalkous (21mm, 6.28 g, 12h). Uncertain Armenian mint. Struck 70-66 BC. Head of Tigranes right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star between two eagles / Tyche seated right, holding palm; below, river-god swimming right. M&D 24; CAA 92; AC 51. Fine, dark green patina. Overstruck on a bronze coin of Arados (BMC 325), dated CY 166 (94/3 BC).

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.