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Dichalkon - Tigranes I Tigranes I standing
| Issuer | Armenia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 123 BC - 96 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of King Tigranes I facing left, wearing a distinctive four-pointed Armenian tiara adorned with a central star motif and secured by a diadem, the ends of which fall behind the neck. The royal portrait is rendered in Hellenistic style, with fine detail in the facial features and headdress. The field is plain. |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing effigy of Tigranes I facing, with head turned to the right, clad in royal Armenian dress and wearing a tall tiara. The king holds a long scepter upright in his right hand, symbolizing sovereign authority, and cradles an eagle in his extended left hand, a traditional emblem of divine kingship. The Greek royal legend is distributed in the field around the figure. |
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Tigranes I is frequently overshadowed by his successor Tigranes the Great, which has left his coinage chronologically murky and rarely the subject of focused scholarship. The Kovacs and Bedoukian attributions place this issue within the Artaxiad dynasty's early autonomous bronze production, a period when Armenian kings were navigating the competing pressures of a weakening Seleucid empire and an expanding Rome that had not yet turned its full attention eastward.
Bronze issues of this reign survive in small numbers, and clean attribution between Tigranes I and contemporaneous Artaxiad output remains contested among specialists.