448, Lot: 185. Estimate $500. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.57 g, 12h). Tigranocerta mint. Struck circa 80-68 BC. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing tiara decorated with star between two eagles, jewels on the diadem / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding laurel branch in extended right hand; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; all within wreath. SCADA Group 7, obv. die A50 (Antioch mint); M&D 4; Kovacs 75.3. Porous, die break on obverse. VF.