ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Tigranes II the Great (95-56 BC). AR tetradrachm (26 mm, 15.53 g).
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Description
Tigranocerta, ca. 80-68 BC.
Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II right, wearing tiara with starburst between eagles standing outward looking inward, bead-and-reel border /
BAΣIΛEΩ-Σ / TIΓPANOY, Tyche seated on rock right, holding palm, river god Orontes swimming right before; A in inner right field, ΣΩ monogram on rock, laureate border.
Kovacs 75.4.
About XF, some green deposits on rim and obverse.