CNG 100, Lot: 1556. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.86 g, 11h). Antioch mint. Struck circa 83-70 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; AP monogram to inner right, HΔ monogram on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 1, dies A4/P67; M&D 2; CAA 17; AC 30. Good VF, die break on obverse, slightly off center.