KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 20.5 mm, 7.00 g, 11 h), Tigranocerta, 80-68 BC. 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 - BAΣIΛEΩN / TIΓPANOY Tyche of Tigranocerta seated to right on rock, holding palm branch in her right hand; below, river-god Araxes swimming right. Kovacs 77. Overstruck on Hoover 1370. With a clear and very interesting overstrike. Beautiful black patina. Overstruck, otherwise, nearly very fine.
From an American collection.
This coin was overstruck on a civic bronze from Antiochia on the Orontes in Syria. The undertype images can be observed on both the obverse and reverse. The bust of Zeus is identifiable on the obverse. ANTIOX is witnessed above Tyche on the reverse.