Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-AR0172 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Oshin; Sis Denomination: Takvorin Place made: Eurasia: Cilicia, Kozan Culture: Armenian Date made: 1308-1320 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 2.20 Weight (g): 2.35 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 6972. A. H. Baldwin, 23rd June 1969, from Jordan. |
|
Description: Obverse: King, on horseback, crowned, with trefoil-topped sceptre, riding r. Reverse: Lion, rampant, facing r., holding cross.
Inscriptions: Obverse: + ԱՒՇԻՆ ԹԱԳԱՒՈՐ ՀԱՅ (Oshin king of the Armenians) Reverse: ՇԻՆԵԱԼ Ի ՔԱՂԱՔՆ․․․ (Struck in the city)
Bibliography: Bedoukian 1853
Notes: Overstruck on Mameluk Dirham.
|