KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Chalkous (Bronze, 17 mm, 3.10 g, 11 h), fourth 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 Cornucopia filled with fruits and bound with fillet; ΔΗ monogram below. ACV 98. CAA -. Kovacs 91. Brown surfaces; struck on a particularly broad flan. Obverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, very fine.

From the collection of Yerets’ Kariatin, Switzerland.