KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 20.5 mm, 5.42 g, 12 h), third series, Tigranokerta, c. 80-68. Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with a star between two eagles. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣIΛEΩN TIΓPANOY Tyche of Tigranocerta seated right on rock, holding laurel branch in extended right hand; below, river-god Araxes swimming to right; to A and ΔΗ monograms across the fields. ACV -. CAA -. Kovacs 85. Green patina and with a fine portrait of Tigranes. Very fine.

From the collection of Yerets’ Kariatin, Switzerland.