fwo_1087456 - CILICIA - KINGDOM OF ARMENIA - LEO I King of Armenia Tram n.d. Sis
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Type : Tram
Date: 1198-1219
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Sis
Metal : silver
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 2,72 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Frappe légèrement décentrée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : LÉGENDE ARMÉNIENNE.
Obverse description : Le roi revêtu de ses ornements royaux, est assis sur un trône dont les deux côtés sont terminés par des têtes de lions, tient une croix de la main droite et une fleur de lis de la gauche.
Obverse translation : (Léon roi des Arméniens).
Reverse
Reverse legend : LÉGENDE ARMÉNIENNE.
Reverse description : Lion à gauche, derrière lui la croix. A sa gauche, une lettre.
Reverse translation : (Frappé dans la ville de Sis).
Commentary
Léon Ier roi d’Arménie fit de Sis sa capitale en 1196, ce monnayage ne peut être que postérieur à cette date. Le lion est l’emblème des Thakavors, “celui qui possède la couronne”, c’est-à-dire le roi.
Leo I, King of Armenia, made Sis his capital in 1196, this coinage can only be later than this date. The lion is the emblem of the Thakavors, “the one who possesses the crown”, that is to say the king
Leo I, King of Armenia, made Sis his capital in 1196, this coinage can only be later than this date. The lion is the emblem of the Thakavors, “the one who possesses the crown”, that is to say the king
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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