220, Lot: 171. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Chalkous (19mm, 7.42 g, 12h). Damaskos mint. Struck 72-70 BC. Head of Tigranes right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star to left, eagle to right / Tyche seated left on rocks, extending arm and holding cornucopia; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; to outer left, ΘE above OΦ. Nercessian,
Tigranes 6; M&D 19; CAA 110; AC 61. Fine, earthen green patina with some areas red.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.