443, Lot: 118. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.95 g, 1h). Tigranocerta mint. Struck circa 80+68 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 to inner right and on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 3, obv. die A32 (Antioch mint); M&D 29; Kovacs 71.2. VF, toned, hairline surface crack on obverse.