Watch List notes:

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 19 mm, 8.21 g, 10 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 - BAΣIΛEΩ[N / TI]ΓPAN[OY] The Tyche of Tigranokerta seated right on rock, holding long palm frond in her right hand; below, river-god Araxes swimming right; in fields to right, monogram of TP and A. Kovacs 81. A lovely, very well struck piece with a splendid portrait. Good very fine.


From an important collection of Armenian coins, Leu 4, 25 May 2019, 327.