CNG 85, Lot: 14. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.05 g, 10h). Antioch mint. Draped bust right, wearing Armenian tiara peaked with five beads and decorated with comet star between two eagles / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock pile, holding palm frond; monogram to inner right; to lower right, river god Orontes swimming right; all within laurel wreath. SCADA Group 6 (A48/P13a – this coin cited); CAA 40; AC 35 (same obv. die as illustration). EF, toned. Great metal.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 5 (25 February 1992), lot 167.