Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 30 | Auction date: 13 July 2024 |
Lot number: 927 Price realized: 302 CHF (Approx. 338 USD / 310 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on |
Lot description: KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 27 mm, 15.78 g, 12 h), Antiochia on the Orontes (?), circa 80-68. Draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with comet star between two eagles. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - TIΓPANOY Eutychides' Tyche of Antiochia, turreted and veiled, seated right on rock, holding long palm frond in her right hand; below, river-god Orontes swimming right; on rock, monogram; in field to right, monogram of AP; all within wreath. Kovacs 74.1. Minor roughness and the obverse struck slightly off center, otherwise, very fine. From an American collection, privately acquired from Lanz on 13 November 2019. Starting price: 100 CHF |