CNG 85, Lot: 15. Estimate $3000. Sold for $11501. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 3.98 g, 12h). Satellite mint of Maskos (Damascus). Draped bust right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with comet star and volute / Tyche seated right on rock pile, holding palm frond; Ω to inner right; to lower right, river god Orontes swimming right; all within laurel wreath. Nercessian, Tigranes 14a (this coin) = SCADA Group 1 (a1/p1a – this coin cited and illustrated) = AC 39 (this coin illustrated); CAA 49. Good VF, reverse double struck. Extremely rare, with only three other examples cited in SCADA.

From the R.A. Collection. Ex Araratian Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5 December 1995), lot 565; Numismatic Fine Arts (29 November 1990), lot 216.