455, Lot: 170. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.57 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; monogram to inner right and on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 3, dies A33/P35 (Antioch mint); Kovacs 71.2; M&D 29. Toned, a couple deposits, slightly weak strike and roughness on obverse, a little off center on reverse. VF.

From the J.B. Collection, purchased in Edmonton, Summer 2002.