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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Armenian Cilicia| > CR80008
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 was a valiant and learned prince; he enlarged his principality and became the master of many provinces. A few days only after his taking possession of the country, the descendants of Ismael, under the command of one Roustam, advanced and came against Cilicia. Leo was not frightened, but confiding in God, who destroyed Sanacherib, he vanquished with a few men the great army of the infidels. Roustam himself being killed by St. George, the whole Hagarenian army then fled and dispersed; the Armenians pursued them and enriched themselves by the booty. -- Vahram of Edessa: The Rhymed Chronicle of Armenia Minor
CR80008. Copper tank, Bedoukian CCA 696, Nercessian ACV 301, gVF, Sis mint, weight 7.574g, maximum diameter 28.2mm, die axis 90o, 1187 - 1219 A.D.; obverse Armenian legend: Levon King of Armenians, crowned lionized head of Levon facing, five dots on the crown, no curls of hair; reverse Armenian legend: Struck in the city of Sis, patriarchal cross, base flanked by star on each side, no steps under cross; 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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