Among the Finest

Triton XIV, Lot: 348. Estimate $5000. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.76 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing tiara decorated with star between two eagles / BAΣIΛEΩ-Σ TIΓPANOY, Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding laurel branch in extended right hand; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; monogram to inner left, monogram on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 3, dies A39/P77; CAA 20; AC 34; SNG Milan 446 (same dies); Pozzi 3036 (same obv. die); Gulbenkian 1058 (same obv. die); de Luynes 3434 (same obv. die). Choice EF, lightly toned and lustrous. Among the finest known.