221, Lot: 409. Estimate $100. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Chalkous (20mm, 8.08 g, 12h). Damaskos mint. Struck 72-70 BC. Head of Tigranes right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star and eagle / Tyche seated left on rock, extending arm and holding cornucopia; at feet, river-god swimming right. Nercessian, Tigranes 6; M&D 19; CAA 110; AC 61. VF, green patina, some deposits, rough.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.