ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Tigranes II the Great (95-56 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 15.66 gm, 12h).

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ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Tigranes II the Great (95-56 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 15.66 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 5/5 – 3/5, brushed. Tigranocerta, ca. 80-68 BC. Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II right, wearing jeweled tiara with starburst between eagles standing outward looking inward, bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩ-Σ / TIΓPANOY, Tyche seated right on rock, palm in outstretched right hand, river god Orontes swimming right before; Θ in inner right field next to Orontes’ head, HΔ monogram on base of rock, laureate border. Kovacs 74.2. AC 31.