Tetrachalkon - Tigranes I Eagle

Tigranes I ruled Armenia as a vassal under Parthian dominance, a political subordination that ended only when his successor Tigranes II leveraged a dynastic marriage to Mithridates VI of Pontus into genuine independence. Bronze civic issues of this period are poorly documented in ancient sources, and Kovacs remains the primary reference precisely because so little systematic study existed before his work catalogued these issues by type.