399, Lot: 206. Estimate $750. Sold for $700. 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 (27.5mm, 15.69 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 with fillet; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; two monograms on rock, pellet below fillet tie; all within wreath. SCADA Group 8, dies A61/P103; Kovacs 75.1; M&D 10 (Syrian mint); CAA –. VF, toned.