378, Lot: 215. Estimate $100. Sold for $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. Æ Half Chalkous (22mm, 7.87 g, 12h). Tigranocerta mint. Struck circa 69-55 BC. Head of Tigranes right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara decorated with star between two eagles / Vahagn (Herakles) standing left, leaning on club, lion skin draped over left arm. M&D 45 var. (ΔH in exergue); CAA 103 var. (different field letters); AC 71. VF, dark green patina with earthen highlights/deposits.