Watch List notes:

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 22 mm, 8.41 g, 1 h), Tigranokerta, circa 80-68. Draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with a star between two eagles and tied with a diadem. Rev. [BAΣIΛEΩΣ] - BAΣIΛEΩN / TIΓPANOY Tyche of Tigranokerta seated to right on rock, holding palm branch in her right hand; below, river-god Araxes swimming right. Kovacs 77. An attractive example struck on a broad flan. Minor traces of overstriking and with a flan crack, otherwise, very fine.


From an important collection of Armenian coins.