Tigranes II - Period 2, Tigranocerta - AR Tetradrachm - Kovacs-75.5 proposition
Identifier
Kovacs-75.5 proposition; ANRO-960
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 examples have no control marks. SCADA lists two examples of this coin A50-P11a (Lanz 62 lot 421; 26 November 1992) and A50-P12a (This example!) (Gorny 44 lot 451; 3 April 1989).
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 examples have no control marks. SCADA lists two examples of this coin A50-P11a (Lanz 62 lot 421; 26 November 1992) and A50-P12a (This example!) (Gorny 44 lot 451; 3 April 1989).
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Citation
“Tigranes II - Period 2, Tigranocerta - AR Tetradrachm - Kovacs-75.5 proposition,” Armenian Numismatic Research Organization, accessed May 6, 2024, http://armnumres.org/items/show/960.