Watch List notes:

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 19 mm, 4.26 g, 12 h), Nisibis, RY 6 = 91/0. Head of Tigranes II to left, wearing four-pointed tiara decorated with a star and tied with a diadem; to left, countermark: APK within rectangular incuse. Rev. BAΣΙΛEΩΣ / MEΓAΛOY - [TIΓPANOY] Tree; in inner left and right fields, I-ς. Kovacs 64. Rare. Some deposits, otherwise, fine.


The countermark APK was applied by Arkathias II, King of Sophene (ca 93/90-90/89 BC), son of Mithradates VI Eupator and brother-in-law of Tigranes II.