Watch List notes:

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 18 mm, 5.30 g, 11 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. [BAΣI]ΛEΩΣ - [BA]ΣIΛEΩN / [TIΓ]PANOY Tyche of Tigranokerta seated to right on rock, holding palm branch in her right hand; below, river-god Araxes swimming right. Kovacs 77. An attractvie piece with beautiful earthen highlights. The obverse a bit weak, otherwise, very fine.


From an important collection of Armenian coins.