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Lot 915

Starting price: 200 CHF
Price realized: 480 CHF
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KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes VI, 2nd reign, 66/7. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 18.5 mm, 7.29 g, 2 h), Arados or coastal mint, year 325 (TEK). Jugate head of Tigranes VI, diademed and wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with three eagles, and his wife wearing Phrygian cap, to right; the whole, within ivy wreath. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ TIΓPANOY MEΓAΛOY The Tyche of Arados seated left on horizontal rudder, holding cornucopia with her left hand; in exergue, [TEK]. ACV -. CAA 161. Kovacs 200. Very rare, and with a dark green patina. Fine.



This coin, dated in the first year of the Roman-Jewish war in 66-67 AD, is the last record we have for Tigranes VI; his impact in history cannot be detected after this date.
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