CNG 87, Lot: 606. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 15.03 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing tiara decorated with star between two eagles / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding laurel branch; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; small O to inner right, HΔ monogram on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 2, obv. die A17; CAA 19; AC 30. VF, light porosity.