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CNG 99, Lot: 319. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Drachm (19.5mm, 4.10 g, 11h). Artaxata mint. Dated RY 35 (61 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; to inner right, EΛ (date) above palm, A below; ΞC in exergue; all within wreath. SCADA Group 1, unlisted dies; M&D 59; CAA 53; AC 40; DCA 431 (unlisted date). VF, toned, softly struck obverse with cleaning scratches under tone. Very rare.