KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. 'Tetradrachm' (Subaeratus, 27 mm, 11.06 g, 7 h), a contemporary plated imitation, after circa 80-68. Draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with comet star between two eagles. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - TIΓPANOY Eutychides' Tyche of Antiochia, turreted and veiled, seated right on rock, holding long palm frond in her right hand; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; on rock, monogram. Kovacs 75.2. The silver plating entirely missing, otherwise, very fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.