★ Extremely rare ★

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 17 mm, 3.55 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. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - TIΓPANOY Palm branch; to lower left, HK; to lower right, monogram. Kovacs 99 ( same dies ). Extremely rare. A very attractive piece, struck before the reverse die was recut to the year H = 8 of Tigranes the Younger (Kovacs 151). Slightly rough, otherwise, good very fine.

From an important collection of Armenian coins.