ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Tigranes II the Great (95-56 BC). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 15.61 gm, 12h). NGC AU 3/5 - 3/5. Tigranocerta, ca. 80-68 BC. Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II right, wearing tiara with starburst between eagles standing outward looking inward, bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩ-Σ / TIΓPANOY, Tyche seated right on rock, holding palm; river god Orontes swimming right before, ΩI monogram in inner right field, staurogram (?) on rock, laureate border. AC 34. Kovacs 71.2. There is a die shift on the reverse, which accounts for the letter across the face of Orontes, however, the obverse is crisp and nicely struck.

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