View source for 2928 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Saryan coll. - Nercessian 1996, 18)

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|Image overstriking coin=Tigranocerta_over_Aradus_(Nercessian_1996,_n°18).PNG
|Image overstruck variety=Aradus_Zeus_Galley.JPG
|Image reference overstruck variety=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85357448
|Private collection=L. A. Saryan 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=3.81
|Diameter=19
|Denomination=tetrachalkon
|Coin reference=Nercessian, 1996, p. 48, n° 18.
|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=Jugate heads of Zeus and his consort, wearing stephane.
|Overstruck reverse description=Prow of galley left, with figure-head of Athena fighting left with spear and shield. Above, letters. Below, date and Phoenician letters.
|Overstruck mint=Aradus
|Overstruck ancient region=Syria (Phoenicia)
|Overstruck date from=135 BCE
|Overstruck date to=135 BCE
|Overstruck period=Hellenistic
|Coin series reference overstruck=BMC Phoenicia, p. 35, n° 294; Duyrat 2005, n° 4382-4404
|Coin series web reference overstruck=https://greekcoinage.org/iris/id/aradus.duyrat.2005.4382-4404
|Remarks="Obv.: above and below, letters and date (visible on reverse: border of dots, date and Phoenician characters; rev.: traces (visible on obverse)"
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