★ A very rare tetrachalkin of Tigranes II ★

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 22 mm, 7.99 g, 12 h), Artaxata, RY 28 = 69/8. Draped bust of Tigranes the Younger (?) to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with a star between two eagles and tied with a diadem. Rev. BAΣΙΛEΩΣ - TIΓPANOY Nike advancing left, holding wreath in her right hand and palm frond over her left shoulder; in field to left, HK over monogram. Kovacs 98 corr. (HK not KH). Very rare. A well centered and clear example. Light corrosion on the obverse, otherwise, very fine.

From an important collection of Armenian coins.