KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 22 mm, 7.12 g, 6 h), Tigranokerta, circa 80-68. Draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with a star between two eagles and tied with a diadem. Rev. [BAΣIΛEΩΣ] - BAΣIΛEΩN / TIΓPANOY Tyche of Tigranokerta seated to right on rock, holding palm branch in her right hand; below, river-god Araxes swimming right. Kovacs 77. Heavy traces of overstriking, otherwise, very fine.


This coin was overstruck on an earlier issue of Antiochia on the Orontes in Syria (BMC 12 ff.).