446, Lot: 128. Estimate $100. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Tetrachalkon (19mm, 7.07 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; Δ–H flanking Tyche, A to inner left (below H). Kovacs Series 3, 85; M&D 43; CAA 94. VF, dark green patina.