CNG 97, Lot: 271. Estimate $7500. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.94 g, 1h). Uncertain Syrian mint. Struck circa 83-70 BC. 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 7, obv. die A57 (Antioch mint); M&D 4; CAA 21; AC 33. Near EF, lightly toned, minor die break on reverse. Bold portrait.