55, Lot: 56. Estimate $750. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARMENIA. Tigranes II, the Great. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (14.84 gm). Antioch mint. Struck circa 83-69 BC. Bust of Tigranes draped right, wearing Armenian tiara, adorned with an eight-pointed star flanked by two eagles looking back, fillet border / Tyche of Antioch, draped and wearing a turreted crown, seated right on a rock, holding a palm branch in right hand; at her feet, the river god Orontes swimming right, BASILEWS TIGPANOY, TP monogram in field; all within laurel wreath. Bedoukian, Coinage of the Artaxiads of Armenia, 17. TonedVF. ($750)