KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Tetradrachm.

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 15.72 g, 12 h), Antiochia on the Orontes (?), circa 83-69. Draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with comet star between two eagles. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - TIΓPANOY The Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding long palm frond in her right hand; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; on rock, monogram of ΔH; in field to right, monogram of AP; all within wreath. Kovacs 74.1. The reverse struck somewhat off center, otherwise, very fine.

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