KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 28 mm, 15.39 g, 12 h), Tigranokerta, circa 80-68. Draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with comet star between two eagles. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - TIΓPANOY The Tyche of Tigranokerta, turreted and veiled, seated right on rock, holding long palm frond in her right hand; below, river-god Araxes swimming right; on rock, monogram. Kovacs 75.1. Traces of overstriking, otherwise, very fine.


What makes this a particularly interesting coin is the fact that it was clearly overstruck on an earlier tetradrachm of Tigranes II, as evidenced by the outlines of a second nose in front of the portrait on the obverse and the appearance of the letters ...EΩΣ to the right of the river god's head