Հաշուեկշիռ Կիլիկիոյ հայոց ոսկեդրամներու
| dc.contributor.author | Եղիա Թ. Ներսէսեան | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-10T09:44:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-10-10T09:44:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1998 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In 1850, Victor Langlois was the first to publish an Armenian gold coin belonging to King Gosdantin 1 of Cilicia. Subsequently, Gustave Schlumberger and Fr. Ghevond Alishan published two more coins and raised the number of Cilician Armenian gold coins to three. Fr. Krikoris Kalemkiarian edited Fr. Clement Sibilian's book, Classification of Roupenian Coins in 1892, listing 13 Cilician Armenian gold coins therein. In 1936, Karik J. Basmadjian raised the total inventory to 16. If we add to this list the Istanbul Museum gold piece, the inventory grows to 17. Paul Z. Bedoukian published his book, Coinage of Cilician Armenia in 1962. Bedoukian classified 11 gold coins in his corpus. In 1979, in the revised edition of this book, he upgraded the catalogue to 12 gold tahekans. During the second half of the twentieth century, two Armenian gold half tahekans were auctioned, the E. Button coin sold in Frankfurt in 1959 and the Frank Sternberg coin sold in Zurich in 1989. The latter was resold in New York in 1995. Based on the information available, the inventory of Armenian gold coins is 14 pieces: Levon I, one-lion 3 gold tahekans; Levon I, two-lion 5 gold tanekans and 2 gold half tahekans; Levon-Hetoum, 2 gold tahekans; Gosdantin I, 2 gold tahekans. One of the coins listed by Fr. Kalemkiarian was destroyed in the 1831 fire. This leaves 16 coins in all. Our catalogue lists 14 gold coins. Hence, we cannot account for two gold coins. It is possible that some of the coins listed by Fr. Kalemkiarian were duplicates. This could explain the descrepancy between the 16 coin list and our 14 coin catalogue. We can only hope that missing Armenian gold coins will be rediscovered in the near future, and once and for all the shroud of mystery will be lifted from this topic. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Ներսէսեան, Ե., Թ., «Հաշուեկշիռ Կիլիկիոյ հայոց ոսկեդրամներու», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 1998, Պէյրութ, էջ 57-74 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/791 | |
| dc.title | Հաշուեկշիռ Կիլիկիոյ հայոց ոսկեդրամներու |
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