KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 16.5 mm, 3.35 g, 12 h), period I, Nisibis mint, year 6 = 91/90 BC. Diademed head of Tigranes II to left, wearing four-pointed tiara decorated with a star (faintly visible). Rev. BACΙΛEΩC MEΓAΛOY TIΓPANOY Tree flanked by the date, I-ς. ACV 26. CAA 3. Kovacs 64. Extremely rare without a countermark. Weakly struck, usual for the Nisibis mint, otherwise, about very fine.

From the collection of Yerets’ Kariatin, Switzerland.