Tigranes II of Armenia (Artaxiad king, c. 95-56 BC)

Mints

Tigranes II, more commonly known as Tigranes the Great 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 the Parthian and Seleucid empires, and the Roman Republic.

Die Studies

Item	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	WeightCarter 1983 * Median weight * 20000 (*10 if gold or electrum)
S 1293 - Artaxata	Bronze
S 92 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II), silver, tetradrachms (80-68 BCE) Nercessian	Silver	21,471 kg
S 970 - Antioch (Tigranes II), silver, tetradrachms (83-70 BCE)	Silver	6,047 kg
S 978 - Armenia (uncertain mint) (Tigranes II), silver, tetradrachms (83-55 BCE)	Silver	988 kg
H 309 - All mints (Tigranes II), silver, tetradrachms (80-68 BCE) Callataÿ	Silver	17,032 kg
S 977 - Nisibis (Tigranes II), silver, drachms (80-63 BCE)	Silver	14,294 kg
S 97 - Artaxata (Tigranes II), silver, drachms (78-72 BCE)	Silver	3,862 kg
Artaxata (Tigranes II), silver, tetradrachms (77-72 BCE)	Silver	1,827 kg
Damascus (Tigranes II), silver, tetradrachms (72-70 BCE)	Silver	3,021 kg
S 94 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II), silver, tetradrachms (71 BCE)	Silver	1,805 kg
S 975 - Artaxata, silver, tetradrachm, 70-55 BC	Silver	2,700 kg
S 973 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II), silver, tetradrachms (70-55 BCE)	Silver	5,014 kg
S 976 - Artaxata, silver, drachma, 70-55 BC	Silver	2,750 kg
S 974 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II), silver, drachms (69-55 BCE)	Silver	94 kg
Tigranocerta (Tigranes II), silver, drachms (68-65 BCE)	Silver	223 kg
S 971 - Uncertain mint, silver, tetradrachm, 83-70 BC	Silver	0 kg

Overstriking coins

Item	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	DateIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.
SO 1924 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over uncertain mint
2749 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 55)
2620 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Gorny & Mosch, 200, Oct. 2011, 2019)
SO 1882 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
2734 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 58)
SO 852 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over uncertain mint
SO 1929 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over uncertain mint
SO 1905 - Artaxata? over Tripolis
SO 1900 - Artaxata? over Seleuceia Pieria
2427 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Hirsch, 163, 496)
SO 1892 - Artaxata? over Larissa
3855 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 28)
3006 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (CNG, 15, 359)
SO 2138 - Artaxata? over Marathus
SO 1908 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
2887 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 53)
SO 1928 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over uncertain mint
SO 1959 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over Epiphaneia?
2808 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Hirsch, 166, May 1990, 503)
SO 1918 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
SO 1891 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
2654 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Hirsch, 167, 552)
2705 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Hirsch, 168, 355)
SO 1898 - Artaxata? over Marathus
3583 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 47)
SO 822 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
SO 1906 - Artaxata? over Tyre
2463 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Rauch, 97, Apr. 2015, 249)
SO 1914 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
2454 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Lanz, 160, June 2015, 273)
SO 1912 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
2533 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Guevrekian coll. - Maksudian 1989, 2.2)
SO 1925 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over Tyre
2064 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 34)
SO 1922 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over uncertain mint
SO 2142 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over uncertain mint
2530 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Gorny & Mosch, 233, Oct. 2015, 1750)
SO 1919 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over Antioch
SO 1902 - Artaxata? over Sidon
1913 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 33)
2870 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Guevrekian coll. - Nercessian 1995, 45)
2418 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 38)
SO 383 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over uncertain mint
3079 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Bedoukian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 26)
SO 1920 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over Antioch
2733 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 57)
2642 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (CNG, 20, 381)
SO 1904 - Artaxata? over Tripolis
3169 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 50)
SO 1907 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
2767 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1995, 74)
SO 1899 - Artaxata? over Marathus
2446 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Gorny & Mosch, 200, Oct. 2011, 2018)
SO 2136 - Artaxata? over Berytus
SO 1921 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over Antioch?
SO 2137 - Artaxata? over Marathus
1860 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 39)
2499 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Lanz, EA, Oct. 2017))
2838 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 43)
SO 2139 - Artaxata? over Marathus
SO 1903 - Artaxata? over Tripolis
2607 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 29)
SO 1901 - Artaxata? over Seleuceia Pieria
SO 1913 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
1727 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 31)
2709 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 63)
SO 2141 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
SO 1927 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over Tyre
3593 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Guevrekian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 25)
SO 1926 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over Antioch
2547 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Hirsch, 167, 550)
SO 1911 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
2833 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 59)
2575 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (CNG, EA 296, Feb. 2013, 61)
SO 1888 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
SO 1897 - Artaxata? over Marathus
3414 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 54)
SO 797 - Artaxata? over Tripolis
SO 1910 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
2433 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Maksudian 1989, 1)
SO 1923 - Uncertain mint under Tigranes II of Armenia over Aradus
SO 2140 - Artaxata? over Marathus
SO 1909 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint
2791 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Bedoukian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 51)
Tigranocerta (tetrachalkon Tigranes II/Tyche) over uncertain mint (Antiochos III/Nike) (Ebay Numismatik Lanz, July 2017)	Bronze	96 BC ^JL
2634 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 37)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
3415 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1995, 75)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
2872 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 32)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
Uncertain mint (AE Tigrane II/Tyché) over Uncertain mint	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
2608 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1995, 70)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
2616 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 30)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
2760 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 49)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
2571 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 40)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
2576 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1995, 59)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
2502 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1995, 73)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
2447 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 36)	Bronze	80 BC ^JL
2456 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (CNG, EA 367, Jan. 2016, 242)		70 ^JL
2402 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (CNG, EA 217, Aug. 2009, 126)		70 ^JL
2651 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Triskeles, 6, June 2016, 105)		70 ^JL
SO 1917 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint		80 ^JL
2481 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Leu, EA 5, Sept. 2018, 348)		80 ^JL
2511 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 22)		96 ^JL
2601 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 20)		96 ^JL
2928 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 18)		96 ^JL
SO 1841 - Artaxata? over Antioch		96 ^JL
SO 1843 - Artaxata? over Antioch		96 ^JL
2397 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (MacDonald coll. - Nercessian 1996, 24)		96 ^JL
SO 1846 - Artaxata? over Apameia		96 ^JL
SO 1845 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint		96 ^JL
SO 1847 - Artaxata? over Apameia		96 ^JL
SO 1842 - Artaxata? over Antioch		96 ^JL
2592 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 23)		96 ^JL
SO 1848 - Artaxata? over Apameia		96 ^JL
SO 1844 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint		96 ^JL
SO 1840 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint		96 ^JL
2543 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian coll. - Nercessian 1996, 19)		96 ^JL
SO 1849 - Artaxata? over Apameia		96 ^JL
SO 1839 - Artaxata? over uncertain mint		96 ^JL
2508 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 21)		96 ^JL