Եղիա Ներսէսեան2025-10-272025-10-272001Ներսէսեան, Ե., «Յաւելեալ փաստարկներ՝ Կիլիկիոյ հայոց ոսկեդրամներու վաւերականութեան շուրջ», «Հայկազեան հայագիտական հանդէս», 2001, Պէյրութ, էջ 113-124https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/856The author supports the viewpoint expounded by numismatics Paul Balog. Paul Bedoukian, Gustave Schlumberger and experts at the British Museum that the gold coins from Cilician Armenia are authentic. He provides additional evidence in this regard. The article argues that these gold coins were struck as commemorative pieces to mark certain events or to be presented as royal gifts. They were stored customarily in the residences of dignitaries and in the palaces of rulers and high-ranking clergy. These were the principal places that were later looted during the ten separate invasions by the Mamluk armies of Egypt into the land of Cilicia in the 13th and 14th centuries AD. Consequently, many gold coins from Cilician Armenia have been found in collections originating from Mamluk-era Egypt. One such hoard was buried on Mamluk territory, together with Mamluk gold dinars dating from not later than 1297 AD. It thus provides a likely burial date of not earlier than 1298, which corresponds to the reign of King Constantine I in Cilician Armenia.