CNG 99, Lot: 318. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.66 g, 12h). 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 A10/P104; M&D 2; CAA 17; AC 30. Good VF, lightly toned, some porosity and light roughness, minor die break on reverse.