Very rare overstruck tetrachalkon, Tigranes II "the Great" (ca. 95-56 BC), Antioch, Artaxiad Armenia

Draped bust right, wearing tiara decorated with star between two eagles; traces of undertype rotated 90 degrees right (head of Tyche right) / Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding palm branch; at feet, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right; traces of undertype (bull right). 23mm, 10.00 grams. Antioch mint. CAA 92; AC 59 (but obverses and reverses of type and undertype correlating); for undertype: Duyrat 4462-80; BMC 331.

Overstruck on an Aradian “Tyche/Bull”. Rare and interesting. A similar coin was sold by CNG (item #914484 for 975$).

From an old US collection, with the original collection ticket.

 

Tigranes II, more commonly known as Tigranes the Great (140 55 BC) was King of Armenia under whom the country became, for a short time, the strongest state to Rome's east. He was a member of the Artaxiad Royal House. Under his reign, the Armenian kingdom expanded beyond its traditional boundaries, allowing Tigranes to claim the title Great King, and involving Armenia in many battles against opponents such as then and Seleucid empires, and the Roman Republic.