Tigranes II - Period 2, Tigranocerta - AR Tetradrachm - Kovacs-72.3 proposition
Identifier
Kovacs-72.3 proposition; ANRO-959
Reference Description
Tigranes II the Great 95-56 BC
Period II: Empire, ca. 80-68 BC
AR Tetradrachm
Obv. Bust of Tigranes II right, draped, wearing tiara with five peaks sometimes with beads, decorated with a star between two eagles and tied with a diadem. Bead and reel border.
Rev. Tyche of Artaxata holding a palm branch, seated right on an elbow-shaped promontory; the river god Araxes at her feet swimming right; on right downward ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, on left downward TIΓPANOY, wreath border.
Current example has a primary control “A” as seen on the no. 72 tetradrachms, as for the second control, it has “TP”, as seen on the Period III Imitation type tetradrachms. SCADA lists it under A64-P8a (Gorny 55 lot 328; 14 May 1991). So far only three examples known.
Period II: Empire, ca. 80-68 BC
AR Tetradrachm
Obv. Bust of Tigranes II right, draped, wearing tiara with five peaks sometimes with beads, decorated with a star between two eagles and tied with a diadem. Bead and reel border.
Rev. Tyche of Artaxata holding a palm branch, seated right on an elbow-shaped promontory; the river god Araxes at her feet swimming right; on right downward ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ, on left downward TIΓPANOY, wreath border.
Current example has a primary control “A” as seen on the no. 72 tetradrachms, as for the second control, it has “TP”, as seen on the Period III Imitation type tetradrachms. SCADA lists it under A64-P8a (Gorny 55 lot 328; 14 May 1991). So far only three examples known.
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Citation
“Tigranes II - Period 2, Tigranocerta - AR Tetradrachm - Kovacs-72.3 proposition,” Armenian Numismatic Research Organization, accessed May 6, 2024, http://armnumres.org/items/show/959.