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Octachalkon - Erato Artaxata
| Issuer | Armenia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 13-15 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped and diademed bust of Queen Erato facing right, her hair arranged in waves beneath a diadem, with a pendant earring visible below. The effigy is rendered in the Hellenistic portrait tradition, with fine facial detail and a naturalistic profile. A partial Greek legend runs along the upper periphery within a dotted border. The field is plain, with the bust occupying the central portion of the flan. |
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| Mintage | ND (13-15) |
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Erato was the daughter of Tigranes II and ruled Armenia in an exceptionally fractured sequence — deposed, restored, and deposed again across the early years of the first century AD as Rome and Parthia competed for control of the Armenian throne. This bronze was struck at Artaxata, the Artaxiad capital founded by Tigranes I on advice, according to Strabo, from Hannibal himself during the Carthaginian general's years of exile at the Seleucid court.
Kovacs 187 is among the scarcer denominations attributed to Erato's final reign period, roughly 13–15 AD, just before Roman pressure under Augustus effectively ended independent Armenian dynastic coinage for a generation.