View source for 1727 - Tigranocerta (Tigranes II) (AE Tigranes/Tyche) over Aradus (Astarte/bull) (Nercessian 1996, 31)

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|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=Artaxata?
|Ancient region=Armenia
|Authority=Tigranes II of Armenia (Artaxiad king, c. 95-56 BC)
|Weight=6.82
|Diameter=22
|Coin reference=Y. T. Nercessian, "Overstruck and countermarked coins of the Artaxiad dynasty of Armenia", Armenian numismatic journal 22/2-3 (1996), p. 23-62, pl. 1-6 (p. 49, no. 31). ; C. Foss, "The Coinage of Tigranes the Great: Problems, Suggestions and a New Find", Numismatic Chronicle 146 (1986), p. 19-66, pl. 5-7, 19
|Coin series reference=Y.  T. Nercessian, Armenian Coins and Their Values, Armenian Numismatic Society Special Publication 8, Los Angeles, 1995, no. 48-54;P. Z. Bedoukian, Coinage of the Artaxiads of Armenia, RNS Special Publication Number 10, London, 1978, no. 91-98 ("Antioch type", units 1, 2 and 4).
|Overstruck obverse description=Bust of Astarte-Europa right, wearing stephane and veil. Border of dots (visible on reverse)
|Overstruck reverse description=Humped bull galloping left. Above and below, letters and date (visible on obverse: back part of the bull, NC)
|Overstruck mint=Aradus
|Overstruck ancient region=Syria (Phoenicia)
|Overstruck date from=94
|Coin series reference overstruck=G. F. Hill, Catalogue of Greek Coins in the British Museum: Phoenicia, London, 1910, p. 40, no. 325-345 (325)
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