CNG 85, Lot: 130. Estimate $400. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARMENIA, Cilician Armenia. Royal. Smpad – Levon V. Late 13th-late 14th centuries. Lot of Nine (9) Mostly Æ Poghs. Includes: (a) Smpad. Æ Kardez. Smpad on horseback riding right / Cross pattée, with lis in each quarter // (b) Levon III. Æ Kardez. Levon seated facing / Cross pattée, with pellet in each angle // (c) Levon IV. Æ Large Pogh. Same / Cross pattée // (d) Gosdantin III. Æ Pogh. Same / Cross pattée, with pellet in each angle // (e) Levon the Usurper. As last // (f) Gosdantin IV. Æ Pogh (struck with takvorin dies). Gosdantin on horseback riding right / Lion advancing right; cross behind // (g) Levon V. BI Denier. Crowned head facing / Cross // (h) Post-Roupenian. Æ Pogh. Lion advancing right; cross above / Lion rampant left // (i) As last. Uncertain king on horseback riding right / Lion advancing left; cross behind. Fine-near VF, some roughness. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Nine (9) coins in lot.

From the R.A. Collection. Coins (a)-(i) ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVII (29 September 1993), lots 183, 190, 204, 220, 225, 229, 231, 233, and 234, respectively.