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Auction 18  5 May 2019
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Lot 226

Estimate: 950 CHF
Price realized: 4000 CHF
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KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 15.65 g, 12 h), Tigranocerta, 80-68. Head of Tigranes II to right, wearing diademed tiara with five peaks and ornamented with an eight-pointed star between two eagles, their heads turned back towards the star; beed and reel border. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ / ΤΙΓΡΑΝΟΥ Turreted and draped Tyche of Artaxata seated to right on rocks, holding palm with her outstretched right hand; on rock, monogram of ΣΩ with circular monogram above; at her feet to right, the river god Araxes; all within laurel wreath. Bedoukian 21/23. Kovacs 75.1. Clear and with a good portrait. Somewhat porous surfaces with minor pitting and traces of dark encrustations, otherwise, about extremely fine.
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