428, Lot: 199. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 15.84 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 on rock, dot to inner right; all within wreath. SCADA Group 4, dies A41/P– (unlisted rev. die); Kovacs 71.1; M&D 28 var. (no pellet); CAA 38 var. (same); cf. AC 34. VF, some roughness.