437, Lot: 155. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. 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 (25.5mm, 15.63 g, 12h). 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;
è to inner right,
› on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 3, dies A32/P12a; Kovacs 71.2; M&D 29; CAA 20; AC 34. Good VF, toned, a few flan flaws on obverse.