Ancients
ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Tigranes II the Great (95-56 BC). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 15.60 gm, 12h). NGC AU 5/5 - 4/5. Tigranocerta, ca. 80-68 BC. Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II right, wearing tiara with starburst between eagles standing outward looking inward, bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩ-Σ / TIΓPANOY, Tyche seated on rock right, palm in right hand, river god Orontes swimming right before; Θ in inner right field next to Orontes' head, HΔ monogram on rock, laureate border. Kovacs 74.2. AC 31. Well-centered example with lovely, lustrous surfaces.
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