CNG 90, Lot: 652. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes VI. First reign, AD 60-62. Æ (19mm, 5.38 g, 12h). Head right, wearing tiara / Nike advancing right, holding wreath and palm frond. Kovacs, Armenia II 14; CAA 148; AC 162-3. Good VF, dark green-brown patina. Very rare, and among the finest known.

Tigranes VI was a client of Rome, and displaced the Parthian-supported king of Armenia, Tiridates (brother of Vologases I). Tigranes soon attacked the kingdom of Adiabene, which was a client of the Parthians at that time. The details of the campaign are unknown, but the conflict appears to have been resolved diplomatically, with Tiridates restored to the throne in Armenia.