CNG 100, Lot: 1557. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 15.80 g, 1h). Tigranocerta mint. Struck circa 70-69 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; monogram to inner right and on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 3, dies A41/P118, a (this coin); M&D 29; CAA 20; AC 34. VF, darkly toned, a hint of porosity on reverse.

Ex Goekoop Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 54, 24 March 2010), lot 874; L. White King Collection (J. Schulman, 26 September 1904), lot 637.