Lot 762
KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 21 mm, 6.91 g, 12 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. BAΣIΛE[ΩΣ] - BAΣIΛE[ΩN] / TIΓPAN[OY] 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 and patina stripped and retoned, otherwise, very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.

This coin was overstruck on an earlier issue of Antiochia on the Orontes in Syria (BMC 12 ff.).
Starting price:
25 CHF
Hammer price:
220 CHF
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Closed
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Closing time: 09-Sep-23, 18:20:30 CEST
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