KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Dichalkon (Bronze, 17 mm, 4.51 g, 11 h), period I, Nisibis mint, c. 90-80. Diademed head of Tigranes II to left, wearing four-pointed tiara decorated with a star (faintly visible). Rev. BAΣΙΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY TIΓPANOY ΦΙΛΕΛΛHNOC Zeus seated to left, holding wreath in his right hand and long scepter with his left; Λ to inner left. ACV 22. Bedoukian, Artaxiads 4. Kovacs 65 ( same dies ). Rare, well centered with a fine brown-green patina. Very fine.

From the collection of Yerets’ Kariatin, Switzerland.