342, Lot: 334. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.37 g, 1h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 83-70 BC. 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; AP monogram to inner right, HΔ monogram on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 1, dies A5/P75, a (this coin, illustrated); M&D 2; CAA 17; AC 30. VF, find patina, PVC residue, off center.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XVIII.2 (2nd Qtr. 1993), no. 132; Cederlind 96 (Summer 1992), lot 104.