Triton XVIII, Lot: 117. Estimate $7500. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.90 g, 12h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 83-70 BC. Draped bust right, wearing tiara with star and eagles / BAΣIΛEΩ-Σ TIΓPANOY, Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding laurel branch in extended right hand; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; HΔ monogram on rock, small O in right field; all within wreath. SCADA Group 2, dies A21/P42; M&D 1; CAA 19; AC 30. Near EF, toned, faint die break on obverse.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Spink 198 (19 March 2009), lot 315.