447, Lot: 149. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 15.61 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 on rock; all within wreath. SCADA Group 4, obv. die A41 (Antioch mint); Kovacs 71.1; M&D 28. Some porosity, minor die break on reverse. VF.