227, Lot: 201. Estimate $100. Sold for $78. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Half Chalkous (16mm, 4.92 g, 12h). Uncertain Armenian mint. Struck 70-66 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. M&D 26; CAA 102; AC 71. VF, dark brown patina.

From the J.P. Righetti Collection, 8017.