220, Lot: 172. Estimate $100. Sold for $72. 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, 6.68 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 Orontes swimming right. M&D 24; CAA 92; AC 51. VF, green patina, some encrustation.
From the J.S. Wagner Collection.