| Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) > February 2024 World CCO Auction | Auction date: 26 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 74131 Price realized: 160 USD (Approx. 147 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ARMENIA. Cilician Armenia. Tram, ND (1198-1219). Sis Mint. Levon I. PCGS MS-64. AC-286. Crisp and uncirculated, this well-preserved medieval issue retains all of its original luster and intricate details. Estimate: $100 - $200 |  |
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| Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) > January 2024 NYINC Auction | Auction date: 12 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 55456 Price realized: 140 USD (Approx. 128 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ARMENIA. Cilician Armenia. Tram, ND (1198-1219). Sis Mint. Levon I. NGC MS-62. AC-265; CCA-114. Weight: 2.94 gms. Coronation issue. Tied with one other as finest certified of this variety at NGC. Estimate: $200 - $400 |  |
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| Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) > April 2024 Hong Kong Auction | Auction date: 15 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 40047 Price realized: 10,500 USD (Approx. 9,881 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CHINA. Kansu. Dollar, Year 3 (1914). Lanchow Mint. PCGS Genuine--Harshly Cleaned, EF Details. L&M-617; K-759; KM-Y-407; WS-0706. Despite its designation and cleaned status, this provincial issue retains very clear details upon each side, with the portrait of Yuan Shih-kai rather crisp and full of character. Meanwhile, aspects such as the reverse characters and leaves are well defined, allowing this example to stand above many of its brethren. To view all items from the Nine Dragons Collection, click here. From the Nine Dragons Collection. Estimate: $12500 - $17500 |  |
Match 3:
| Stack's Bowers Galleries (& Ponterio) > April 2024 Hong Kong Auction | Auction date: 15 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 41264 Price realized: 1,200 USD (Approx. 1,129 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: CHINA. Szechuan-Tibet. Rupee, ND (1911-33). Chengdu Mint. PCGS MS-61. L&M-359; K-589; KM-Y-3.2; WS-0758-1. Variety with collar, vertical rosette, and no leaf above "si". Wholesome and remarkably original, this scarcely handled example retains a predominantly frosty silver aspect. The delicately featured bust and intricate reverse suffer none of the strike weakness or excess handling that so often plague the issue. To view all items from the Nine Dragons Collection, click here. From the Nine Dragons Collection. Estimate: $800 - $1200 |  |
Match 4:
| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 6298 Price realized: 4,200 CHF (Approx. 4,774 USD / 4,434 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ARMENIA, Cilician Armenia. Royal. Levon I, 1198-1219. Denier (Billon, 18 mm, 0.80 g, 8 h), Sis. Coronation issue, 1198. ✠ RЄX ARMENOR Crowned facing bust of Levon I. Rev. ✠ LЄO DЄI GRATIA Cross pattée. AC 10. CCA 281 var. (ARMENIOR). S. Moeller: Eine neue Bewertung der Deniers von König Levon I. von Kilikisch-Armenien, in: NNB 65/1 (2016), pp. 93-94, and idem: Neue Überlegungen zur Münzreform König Levons I. (1187-1219) von Armenien, in: GN 304 (2019), pp. 208-213. Very rare with Latin legends. Somewhat porous and with minor areas of weakness, otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. This coin is Levon's only denier with Latin legends and titles and as such of the greatest interest. It was struck in Sis, but it has been suggested by Bedoukian that it was intended for circulation in Antioch once the great Crusader city would have been captured by the king. However, S. Moeller has recently come out against this theory, arguing that a permanent incorporation of Antioch into the Armenian realm would have lead to an unsustainable break with the Pope and the Crusader states and therefore was outside of Levon's scope. Rather, he connects the issue to Levon's coronation to king in 1198, an epochal event in Armenian history, which was celebrated in Sis in accord with, and in presence of, the papal legate, Archbishop Conrad of Mainz. Moeller suggests that the very rare Latin deniers may have been distributed to Levon's occidental supporters during the coronation, whereas the more common coins with Armenian legends were addressing his local subjects instead. Starting price: 100 CHF |  |
Match 5:
| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 6299 Price realized: 2,800 CHF (Approx. 3,183 USD / 2,956 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: ARMENIA, Cilician Armenia. Royal. Levon I, 1198-1219. Denier (Billon, 16 mm, 0.81 g, 12 h), Sis. Coronation issue, 1198. ✠ RЄX ARMENOR Crowned facing bust of Levon I. Rev. ✠ LЄO DЄI GRATIA Cross pattée. AC 10. CCA 281 var. (ARMENIOR). S. Moeller: Eine neue Bewertung der Deniers von König Levon I. von Kilikisch-Armenien, in: NNB 65/1 (2016), pp. 93-94, and idem: Neue Überlegungen zur Münzreform König Levons I. (1187-1219) von Armenien, in: GN 304 (2019), pp. 208-213. Very rare with Latin legends. Some deposits and with a few light scratches, otherwise, very fine. From a European collection, formed before 2005. This coin is Levon's only denier with Latin legends and titles and as such of the greatest interest. It was struck in Sis, but it has been suggested by Bedoukian that it was intended for circulation in Antioch once the great Crusader city would have been captured by the king. However, S. Moeller has recently come out against this theory, arguing that a permanent incorporation of Antioch into the Armenian realm would have lead to an unsustainable break with the Pope and the Crusader states and therefore was outside of Levon's scope. Rather, he connects the issue to Levon's coronation to king in 1198, an epochal event in Armenian history, which was celebrated in Sis in accord with, and in presence of, the papal legate, Archbishop Conrad of Mainz. Moeller suggests that the very rare Latin deniers may have been distributed to Levon's occidental supporters during the coronation, whereas the more common coins with Armenian legends were addressing his local subjects instead. Starting price: 100 CHF |  |
