KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II ‘the Great’, 95-56 BC. Chalkous (Bronze, 16.5 mm, 2.36 g, 12 h), seventh series, Artaxata, year KH (28) = 69-68. Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with a star between two eagles. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ TIΓPANOY Club; below and to the right field, HK and ΞEP monogram. ACV -. CAA -. Kovacs 100. Unpublished prior to Kovacs in 2016; an extremely rare coin struck on an unusually broad, for the denomination, flan. Good very fine.

From the collection of Yerets’ Kariatin, Switzerland.