447, Lot: 146. Estimate $750. Sold for $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30.5mm, 15.66 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 1, obv. die A6 (Antioch mint); Kovacs 74.1; M&D 2. Toned, deposits, some die rust on obverse, double struck on reverse. VF.