CNG 111, Lot: 301. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 15.62 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; two monograms on rock; all within wreath. Kovacs 75.1; SCADA Group 7, dies A53/P17; M&D 9; CAA 33; AC 37. VF, toned, slightly off center on reverse.