444, Lot: 179. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27.5mm, 15.52 g, 12h). 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; AP monogram to inner right, HΔ monogram on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 1, obv. die A13 (Antioch mint); Kovacs 74/1; M&D 2. VF, toned, minor flan flaws on obverse, a little off center on reverse.