389, Lot: 327. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.44 g, 1h). Tigranocerta mint. Struck circa 80-68 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; HΔ monogram on rock, small Θ in right field; all within wreath. SCADA Group 2, dies A22/P63, a (this coin); Kovacs 74.2; M&D 1; CAA 19; AC 30. VF, minor porosity.

From the collection of a Texas Wine Doctor. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XIX.1 (1994 First Quarter), no. 86; Classical Numismatic Group XXVII (29 September 1993), lot 8.