Armenian Kingdom. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.01g, 25mm). Antioch mint. Struck circa 80-68 BC. Kovacs 74.1

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Armenian Kingdom. Tigranes II ‘the Great’. 95-56 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.01g, 25mm). Antioch mint. Struck circa 80-68 BC. Obv.: draped bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing five-pointed tiara decorated with comet star between two eagles. Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ – TIΓPANOY, Tyche seated right on rock, holding long palm frond in her right hand; below, river-god Araxes swimming right; on rock, monogram of ΔH; in field to right, monogram of AP; all within wreath. Kovacs 74.1. Minor die breaks and some horn silver on the obverse, VF.