217, Lot: 141. Estimate $100. Sold for $92. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Half Chalkous (17mm, 5.48 g, 11h). Artaxata mint. Struck 70-55 BC. Head of Tigranes right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star between two eagles / Herakles-Vahagn standing left, holding club and lion’s skin; monogram to inner left, A to inner right. M&D 86; CAA 101; AC 65. Near VF, dark green patina.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.