Triton XVIII, Lot: 118. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.16 g, 12h). Artaxata mint. Dated RY 36, month H (60 BC). Draped bust right, wearing tiara with star and eagles / BAΣIΛE-ΩΣ BAΣIΛEΩN TIΓPANOY, Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding laurel branch in extended right hand; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; ζΛ (year) above arm, H (month) below, ZC in exergue; all within wreath. SCADA Group 7, c (a29/p22) = Sunrise 222 corr. (mint and date; this coin, illustrated in SCADA); M&D 74; CAA 75; AC 40; DCA 431 (75/4 BC on Armenian Era dating). VF, toned. Rare.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex R.A. Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 85, 15 September 2010), lot 16; Classical Numismatic Group XXVII (29 September 1993), lot 11.