CNG 85, Lot: 101. Estimate $100. Sold for $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARMENIA, Cilician Armenia. Royal. Raymond-Roupen. Prince of Antioch, 1216-1219. BI Denier (19mm, 0.97 g, 10h). + :R:V:P:I:N:V:S· (double and triple annulet stops), helmeted bust left wearing chain mail, flanked by crescent and star / + AMTOCHIA (sic), cross pattée; crescent in second angle. Metcalf, Crusades Class M, 452-4; CCS 93. VF, some roughness.

From the R.A. Collection. Ex Araratian Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5 December 1995), lot 768.

Becoming the Prince of Antioch through the influence of his great uncle Levon I, Raymond-Roupen ruled during Levon’s ongoing conflict with Bohémond IV, which lasted nearly 20 years. When Bohémond finally repelled Raymond from Antioch in 1219, the latter, as Rex Iunior, was one of the unsuccessful claimants to the now vacant throne in Armenia following the death of Levon.