KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 19.5 mm, 5.51 g, 12 h), third series, Tigranokerta, c. 80-68. Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with a star between two eagles. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣIΛEΩN TIΓPANOY Herakles standing facing, head to left, setting club on the ground with his right hand; lion's skin draped over his left arm; to A and ΔΗ monograms across the fields. ACV -. CAA -. Kovacs 86. Struck on an unusually broad and heavy flan. Edge split, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of Yerets’ Kariatin, Switzerland.