KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.96 g, 12h). Official imitation struck under Antiochos I of Commagene. Samosata mint(?). Struck circa 69-56 BC.

CNG Feature Auction 115
Lot: 264. Estimated: $ 1 000

Greek, Silver

Sold For $ 3 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 15.96 g, 12h). 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. SCADA Group 6, dies A48/P6, c (this coin); Kovacs 123; M&D 49; CAA 24–5 and 40–1; AC 35. Dark iridescent tone, area of weak strike, tiny flan flaw in field on obverse. VF.

From the Weise Collection, purchased from Dr. Arnold Saslow, 16 September 2000. Ex Schoonmaker Collection (Stack's, 10 June 1997), lot 251; Giessener Münzhandlung 52 (6 November 1990), lot 369.


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