CNG 85, Lot: 16. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.16 g, 12h). Artaxata (Artashat) mint. Struck circa 75 BC. Draped bust right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with comet star between two eagles / Tyche seated right on rock pile, holding palm frond; to inner right, ςΛ above H; to lower right, river god Orontes swimming right; ΞC in exergue. SCADA Group 7 (a29/p22c – this coin cited and illustrated); CAA 75; AC 40. VF, toned. Rare.

From the R.A. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVII (29 September 1993), lot 11.