View source for 2463 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Rauch, 97, Apr. 2015, 249)

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|Image overstriking coin=Tigranocerta_over_Aradus_(Rauch,_97,_Apr._2015,_249).PNG
|Image reference overstriking coin=https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2414378
|Image overstruck variety=Aradus Astarte bull Paris.jpg
|Image reference overstruck variety=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85355843
|Sale=Rauch 97 (14/04/2015), n° 249
|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=80 BCE
|Date to=68 BCE
|Period=Hellenistic
|Metal=Bronze
|Weight=8.02
|Denomination=tetrachalkon
|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=Head of Astarte-Europa right
|Overstruck reverse description=Humped zebu galloping left. Below, date 173.
|Overstruck mint=Aradus
|Overstruck ancient region=Syria (Phoenicia)
|Overstruck date from=87 BCE
|Overstruck date to=87 BCE
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic
|Coin series reference overstruck=BMC Phoenicia, p. 40, n° 325-345; Duyrat 2005, n° 4422-4602
|Coin series web reference overstruck=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aradus.duyrat.2005.4422-4602
|Remarks="The present coin was probably overstruck on a bronze from Arados (Astarte/taurus type) of the year 173 = 87-86 BC. "
}}