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Dichalkon - Tigranes I Tigranes I standing
| Issuer | Armenia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 123 BC - 96 BC |
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| Value | Dichalkon (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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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.