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Dichalkon - Tigranes II elephant
| Issuer | Armenia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 80 BC - 68 BC |
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| Diameter | 18 mm |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Mintage | ND (80 BC - 68 BC) |
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Tigranes II ruled at the peak of Armenian imperial expansion, controlling territory stretching from the Caspian to the Mediterranean at his height — a domain that briefly made him the most powerful ruler in the Near East after Mithridates VI's setbacks against Rome. The elephant on this issue almost certainly references his military campaigns into the Seleucid successor states, where war elephants remained both practical weapons and powerful dynastic symbols inherited from Alexander's legacy.
The series was effectively ended by Lucullus's invasion of 69 BC, which collapsed Armenian control of Syria and sent Tigranes fleeing his own capital at Tigranocerta.