Issued to mark the 2050th anniversary of Tigran II's ascession, this was part of Armenia's first substantive gold commemorative program following independence — the Central Bank had only been established in 1993, and hard-currency commemoratives of this kind were as much about signaling institutional credibility internationally as anything else. Tigran II ruled the Armenian Empire at its greatest territorial extent, briefly controlling a stretch from the Caspian to the Mediterranean in the first century BC before Pompey dismantled it.
Issued to mark the 2050th anniversary of Tigran II's ascession, this was part of Armenia's first substantive gold commemorative program following independence — the Central Bank had only been established in 1993, and hard-currency commemoratives of this kind were as much about signaling institutional credibility internationally as anything else. Tigran II ruled the Armenian Empire at its greatest territorial extent, briefly controlling a stretch from the Caspian to the Mediterranean in the first century BC before Pompey dismantled it.