Watch List notes:

ARMENIA, Cilician Armenia. Royal. Hetoum I, 1226-1270. Tram (Silver, 22 mm, 2.93 g, 10 h), bilingual issue, acknowleding acknowleding the Seljuk Sultan Kay Qubadh I, without mint, circa 1226-1236. Hetoum on horseback riding right, head facing, holding lis-tipped scepter and reins; in field to left, cross; around, 'Hethum King of the Armenians' in Armenian. Rev. The reverse legend citing Kayqubad, the son of Kaykhusraw, as the Supreme Sultan in four lines in Arabic. Broome, 1101, type B. Izmirlier 344.e12. Rare. Some marks, otherwise, very fine.


From the collection of J. Knudsen, formed from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.