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, Leu Web Auction 20, 16-18 July 2022, 1430, 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.