Who was who in the Roman Empire: Armenia
The Artaxiads (Artashesiank'):The empire of Tigran
By Levon Zekiyan. Excerpted from Hye Etch.
The Coins and History of Asia: Armenia
A brief history of Armenia and images of Armrnian coins.
King Tigran II the Great
Ancient Coins of Armenia
Tigranes also spelled TIGRAN, or DIKRAN (b. c. 140--d. c. 55 BC), king of Armenia from 95 to 55 BC, under whom the country became for a short time the strongest state in the Roman East.
Excerpted from Digital Historia Numerorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics