Cilician Armenia, King Hethum I, AE Kardez

Date: 1226 - 1270 CE
The Crusades

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Includes glass top leatherette display box.

  • Origin: Cicilian Armenia, a strong ally of the Crusader States that saw itself as a Christian stronghold in Eastern Europe
  • Authority: Hethum I
  • Date: 1226 - 1270 CE
  • Denomination: AE 1 Kardez (Copper)
  • Mint: City of Sis (in modern day Turkey)
  • Size: 23mm
  • Obverse: [Հ]ԵԹՈՒՄ ԹԱԳԱՒՈՐ Հ[ԱՅՈՑ] (Hetoum king of the Armenians) - Crowned king seated on a bench-like throne, holding a royal mace in his right hand a cross in his left. * in the left field.
  • Reverse: Շ[Ի]ԵՆԱԼ Ի ՔԱՂ[Ա]ՔՆ Ի ՍԻՍ (Struck in the city of Sis) - Simple cross with a crescent in the first quadrant and pellets in all the others.

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