★ Extremely rare ★

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 18 mm, 6.00 g, 1 h), Tigranokerta, circa 80-68. Draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with a star between two eagles and tied with a diadem. Rev. [BA]ΣIΛE[ΩΣ] - BAΣIΛEΩN / TIΓPANOY The Tyche of Tigranokerta seated right on rock, holding long palm frond in her right hand; below, river-god Araxes swimming right; in fields, Δ-H. Kovacs 89. Extremely rare and with attractive earthen deposits. Very fine.

From an important collection of Armenian coins.