Watch List notes:

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 15 mm, 4.38 g, 1 h), Artaxata, RY 40 = 57/6. Draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with a star between two eagles and tied with a diadem. Rev. BAΣΙΛEΩΣ - TIΓPANOY Cypress tree; below, M. Kovacs -, cf. 114 (same year, but differing reverse). Unpublished with this date. Very fine.


From the collection of an Armenian businessman, acquired before 2021, ex Leu Web Auction 14, 12-13 December 2020, 528 and previously from an important collection of Armenian coins.