Draped bust right, wearing five-pointed Armenian tiara / Tyche of Antioch seated right on rock, holding palm; to lower right, river god Orontes swimming right, head facing; to inner right, monogram above A. 16mm, 5.16 grams. Artashat mint. M&D 85; CAA 93; AC 48.

Uncleaned.

 

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.