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CNG 102, Lot: 579. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Drachm (19.5mm, 3.50 g, 12h). Artaxata mint. Dated RY 36, month Δ (60 BC). Draped bust right, wearing tiara with star and eagles / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding laurel branch; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; ζΛ (year) above arm, Δ (month) to right of palm, ΞK in exergue; all within wreath. SCADA Group 3, dies a22/p9; M&D 74; CAA 68; DCA 431 (75/4 BC on Armenian Era dating). VF, toned, porous.