CNG 85, Lot: 127. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ARMENIA, Cilician Armenia. Royal. Levon IV – Gosdantin IV. 14th century. Lot of Seventeen (17) AR Takvorins. Includes:
(a)-(c) Levon IV. King on horseback riding right / Lion advancing right; cross behind (3 coins) // (d)-(e)
As last, but with Arabic overstrike on obv. and rev. (2 coins) // (f) Guy. King on horseback riding right / Lion advancing right; cross behind // (g) Gosdantin III. Same / Lion advancing left; cross behind // (h)-(l) Same / Lion advancing right; cross behind (5 coins) // (m) Same / Lion advancing left; cross behind // (n)-(o) Levon the Usurper. As last (2 coins) // (p)-(q) Gosdantin IV. As last (2 coins). Fine-VF, some toned. LOT SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS. Seventeen (17) coins in lot.
From the R.A. Collection. Coins (a)-(c), (f), (g), (h), (i)-(m), (o), and (p) ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVII (29 September 1993), lots 200, 210, 216, 217, 218, 222, and 227, respectively; coin (n) ex Araratian Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5 December 1995), lot 883.
