438, Lot: 186. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1201. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 15.89 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; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; monogram to inner right and on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 3, obv. die A34 (Antioch mint); M&D 29; Kovacs 71.2. Good VF, toned, slightly off center.