Watch List notes:

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 18 mm, 5.06 g, 1 h), Nisibis, circa 90-80. Head of Tigranes II to left, wearing four-pointed tiara decorated with a star and tied with a diadem. Rev. BAΣΙΛЄ[ΩΣ] / MЄΓAΛO[Y] - TIΓPAN[OY / ΦΙΛЄΛΛHNOC Nike standing right, holding wreath in her right hand; above, MA. Kovacs 67 var. (M-A in left and right fields). An apparently unpublished variety. Struck from a worn obverse die, otherwise, very fine.


From an important collection of Armenian coins.