ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Tigranes II the Great (95-56 BC). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 15.94 gm, 1h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Tigranocerta, ca. 80-68 BC. Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II right, wearing tiara surmounted by five pinnacles, decorated with starburst between eagles standing outward looking inward, bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩ-Σ / TIΓPANOY, Tyche seated right on rock, palm in right hand, river god Araxes swimming right before; Φ in inner right field, staurogram on rock base, laureate border. Kovacs 71.1. AC 34. Struck from lovely, Fine Style dies on dove gray surfaces, with a particularly pleasing portrait.

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