Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 30Auction date: 13 July 2024
Lot number: 928

Price realized: 500 CHF   (Approx. 559 USD / 513 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


KINGS OF ARMENIA. Tigranes II 'the Great', 95-56 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 16.08 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. BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] - TIΓPANO[Y] 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, Θ; all within wreath. Kovacs 74.2. Thin surface crack on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.

Starting price: 100 CHF