fwo_1131065 - CILICIA - KINGDOM OF ARMENIA - LEO I King of Armenia Tram d'argent c. 1198-1219 Sis
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Type : Tram d'argent
Date: c. 1180-1220
Date: c. 1198-1219
Mint name / Town : Sis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 10 h.
Weight : 2,94 g.
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE ARMÉNIENNE.
Obverse description : Léon couronné et drapé trônant de face, tenant une fleur de la main droite et un sceptre fleurdelisé de la gauche ; le trône est orné de têtes de lion.
Obverse translation : (Léon roi des Arméniens).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE ARMÉNIENNE.
Reverse description : Deux lions rampant opposés ; au milieu, croix arménienne.
Reverse translation : (Frappé dans la ville de Sis).
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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