217, Lot: 140. Estimate $100. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Chalkous (20mm, 5.50 g, 12h). Artaxata mint. Struck 70-55 BC. Head of Tigranes right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star between two eagles / Tyche seated right, holding palm; to inner right, monogram above A; below, river-god swimming right. M&D 85; CAA 93; AC 48. VF, dark green patina, earthen encrustation.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.