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bby_622936 - CILICIA - KINGDOM OF ARMENIA - LEO I King of Armenia Tram

CILICIA - KINGDOM OF ARMENIA - LEO I King of Armenia Tram AU/AU
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Price : 350.00 €
Type : Tram
Date: 1198-1219
Date: 1198
Mint name / Town : Sis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,89 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée présentant quelques faiblesses sur les légendes. Superbes lions au revers. Patine grise de collection avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : LÉGENDE ARMÉNIENNE.
Obverse description : Le roi, agenouillé, ayant la couronne sur la tête et le manteau royal sur les épaules, reçoit des mains du Christ nimbé une grande croix.
Obverse translation : (Léon roi des Arméniens).

Reverse


Reverse legend : LÉGENDE ARMÉNIENNE.
Reverse description : Deux lions debout et adossés, entre eux une longue croix double.
Reverse translation : (Par la puissance de Dieu).

Commentary


Tram d’argent du couronnement.

Historical background


CILICIA - KINGDOM OF ARMENIA - LEO I King of Armenia

(1198-1219)

Armenians first lived around Lake Van. Nicephorus II Phocas (963-969) settled a significant part of the Armenian people in Cilicia. After the Seljuk invasion in Asia Minor, it constituted an independent principality whose first monarch was Roupen (1080-1095). Leo II received from Emperor Henry VI, in 1198, a crown which made him an independent monarch of Byzantium which would fall in 1204. Leo II made Sis his capital in 1196. Leo II (Levon II) is sometimes called Leo I ( Levon I) as king of Armenia, but this numbering is not unanimous. Indeed, he is the first to be crowned king of Armenia in 1198, before they were "Princes of the mountains".

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