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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 8276055, member: 110226&quot;]Here are two tetradrachms of Tigranes II, the second one actually an imitation.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, the Real McCoy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kings of Armenia, 95-55 BC</p><p>Tigranes II, the Great</p><p>AR Tetradrachm, 15.8g, minted at Antioch.</p><p>Obverse: Bust of Tigranes right wearing an Armenian tiara with five pyramidal points and adorned with a comet star between two eagles.</p><p>Reverse: Antiochene Tyche seated right on rocks, holding a palm frond; river-god Orontes swimming right, below; TP monogram before; all within a laurel wreath. Nercessian (SCADA) Group 5 (A48/P13); Bedoukian (CAA) 40.</p><p>Good VF.</p><p><br /></p><p>After decades of fratricidal strife between various members of the Seleukid dynasty, the Syrians rose up against their rulers and invited Tigranes II, the Great, of Armenia to restore order in their kingdom (83 BC). His rule extended over the following fourteen years until he was eventually driven out of Syria by the Roman general Lucullus.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461171[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And the imitation, from Roma Numismatics, which actually shares many features with the first coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kings of Armenia, 95-55 BC</p><p>Tigranes II &#039;the Great&#039;</p><p>Imitative AR Tetradrachm</p><p>Samosata(?), after circa 69-66 BC.</p><p>Draped bust to right, wearing Armenian tiara with five peaks and emblazoned with star between two eagles; bead and reel border around / [BA]ΣIΛEOΣ TIΓPANOY, Tyche of Antioch seated to right on rock pile, holding palm frond, river god Orontes swimming to right below; TP monogram to inner right; all within laurel wreath. ACV 35; CAA 24-25; Kovacs 123 (same obv. die). 15.31g, 27mm, 12h.</p><p>Near Very Fine. Lot 390, Roma E-Sale 77, lot 390.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461175[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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