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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Armenian Cilicia| > CR72028
Crusaders, Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, Levon I the Magnificent, 1198 - 1219 A.D.
|Armenian| |Cilicia|, |Crusaders,| |Armenian| |Kingdom| |of| |Cilicia,| |Levon| |I| |the| |Magnificent,| |1198| |-| |1219| |A.D.|, Leo, having governed the country twelve years as Baron and twenty-two as King, felt his end approaching, and appointed in an assembly of the whole nobility of the kingdom, a certain baron named Atan to be Regent of the country and guardian of his daughter. Leo died soon after and was buried in the church of Agner; a part of his body was brought into the town of Sis, and a church was built thereupon. -- Vahram of Edessa: The Rhymed Chronicle of Armenia Minor
CR72028. Silver tram, cf. Bedoukian CCA 237, Nercessian ACV 289, VF, well centered, nicely toned, weight 2.506g, maximum diameter 22.7mm, die axis 315o, 1198 - 1219 A.D.; obverse Armenian legend: Levon King of the Armenians, Levon seated facing on throne ornamented with lions, wearing crown and royal mantle on shoulders, cross in right, lis in left, feet on footstool; reverse Armenian legend: By the will of God, patriarchal cross, flanked on each side by a rampant lion facing outwards and looking back inward; SOLD










REFERENCES|

Bedoukian, P. Coinage of Cilician Armenia. ANSNNM 147. (1962).
Bedoukian, P. Medieval Armenian Coins. (Paris, 1971).
Bedoukian, P. "Two Hoards of Levon II Trams" in Selected Numismatic Studies II. (Los Angeles, 2003).
Kovacs, F. "Additions and corrections to Armenian coins and their Values" in Armenian Numismatic Journal 30/3. (2004).
Metcalf, D. "Classification of the Trams of Levon I of Cilician Armenia" in RBN CXVIII. (1972).
Nercessian, Y. Armenian Coins and Their Values. Armenian Numismatic Society, Special Publication No. 8. (Los Angeles, 1995).

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