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Lot 38

Starting price: 150 CHF
Price realized: 320 CHF
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KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes I, 121-96 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 17 mm, 3.98 g, 1 h), struck post-mortem in Artaxata, under Tigranes II 'the Great', after 96. Diademed head of the deified Tigranes I to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with a star. Rev. BAΣΙΛEΩΣ MEΓ[AΛOY TI]ΓPANOY ΘEOY Elephant standing to left. ACV 145-146. CAA 143. Kovacs 54 (this obverse die). A very rare issue of Tigranes the Great, honouring his deceased father. Some uncleaned deposits, otherwise, about very fine.

From the collection of Yerets' Kariatin, Switzerland.
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