CNG 111, Lot: 303. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.09 g, 11h). Official imitation struck under Antiochos I of Commagene. Samosata mint(?). Struck circa 69-56 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; all within wreath. Kovacs 123; SCADA Group 6, dies A48/P13; M&D 49; CAA 24–5 and 40–1; AC 35. VF. Struck on a broad flan.