★ A rare dichalkon from 69/8 BC ★

KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Tetrachalkon (Bronze, 21 mm, 3.92 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). Rare. Somewhat rough and the reverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, very fine.

From an important collection of Armenian coins.