440, Lot: 191. Estimate $1000. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.67 g, 12h). 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; o to inner right and monogram on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 2, dies A22/P49 (Antioch mint); M&D 1; Kovacs 74.2. VF, toned, some porosity and deposits, graffito in left obverse field.