Watch List notes:

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes V, circa 6-12. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 18 mm, 6.68 g, 1 h), Artagigarta (?). Draped bust of Tigranes V to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with four eagles and tied with a diadem. Rev. BAΣΙΛEΩΣ / TIΓPANOY - [ME]ΓAΛO[Y] Herakles standing front, head to left, leaning right on club and holding lion's skin draped over his left arm. Kovacs 181. An exceptional example with a splendid portrait. The reverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of an Armenian businessman, acquired before 2021, ex Künker 295, 25 September 2017, 350, from the Sunrise Collection, Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015, 121 and ex Gorny & Mosch 207, 15 October 2012, 437.