View source for 2397 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (MacDonald coll. - Nercessian 1996, 24)

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|Image overstriking coin=Tigranocerta_over_Aradus_(Nercessian_1996,_n°24).PNG
|Image overstruck variety=Aradus Tyche-Poseidon.jpg
|Image reference overstruck variety=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8480028b#
|Private collection=D. MacDonald collection
|Obverse description=Bust of Tigranes II to right, wearing Armenian tiara decorated with a star between two eagles and tied with a diadem, drapery on shoulders. Border of dots.
|Reverse legend=BAΣIΛEΩΣ BAΣIΛEΩN TIΓPANOY
|Reverse description=Tyche of Antioch seated on rocks right, wearing turreted crown, holding palm branch. At her feet, the upper portion of the river-god Orontes swimming right. In field, letters/monograms. Border of dots.
|Mint=Tigranocerta
|Ancient region=Armenia
|Authority=Tigranes II of Armenia (Artaxiad king, c. 95-56 BC); Armenian kingdom
|Date from=96 BCE
|Date to=56 BCE
|Period=Hellenistic
|Metal=Bronze
|Weight=6.16
|Diameter=22
|Denomination=tetrachalkon
|Coin reference=Nercessian, 1996, p. 49, n° 24
|Coin series reference=Bedoukian 1978, n° 91-98 ("Antioch type", units 1, 2 and 4); Nercessian 1995, n° 48-54; Kovacs 2016, n° 124.
|Coin series web reference=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/tigranes_ii_armenia.tigranocerta.kovacs.2016.124
|Overstruck obverse description=Bust of Tyche right, wearing necklace and turreted crown. In field, palm branch.
|Overstruck reverse description=Poseidon seated left on prow of galley left, nude to waist, holding wreath and trident. As figure-head Athena left, holding shield and spear. Above, Phoenician letters.
|Overstruck mint=Aradus
|Overstruck ancient region=Syria (Phoenicia)
|Overstruck date from=132 BCE
|Overstruck date to=132 BCE
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic
|Coin series reference overstruck=BMC Phoenicia, p. 37, n° 301-310; Duyrat 2005, n° 2237-2492
|Coin series web reference overstruck=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aradus.duyrat.2005.2237-2492
|Remarks="Obv.: below, letters and date (visible on reverse: border of dots; rev.: (visible on obverse: prow of galley left)"
}}