SCADA Plate Coin

406, Lot: 435. Estimate $500. Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 15.59 g, 1h). Tigranocerta mint. Struck circa 80-68 BC. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing tiara decorated with star between two eagles / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding laurel branch in extended right hand; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; monogram on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 7, dies A58/P66, a (this coin, illustrated; Antioch mint); M&D 4; Kovacs 75.2. VF, some porosity, deposits on reverse.

From the George Bernert Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear 7 (22 February 2002), lot 205.