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1 Kardez - Hetoum II double cross type
| Issuer | Cilician Armenia |
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| Year | 1289-1305 |
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| Currency | Tram (1080-1301) |
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| Obverse description | Central patriarchal (double-barred) cross occupying the inner field, the vertical shaft extending downward toward the lower rim. Scrolling foliate or interlace ornaments fill the lower quadrants flanking the cross shaft. The entire central device is enclosed within a plain inner circle, surrounded by a circular Armenian legend in the outer border. |
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| Reverse script | Armenian |
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Hetoum II ruled Cilician Armenia in one of the most fractured reigns in the kingdom's history — abdicating three separate times, twice to enter a Franciscan monastery, before being murdered alongside his nephew Levon III by the Mongol commander Bilarghu in 1307. The double cross type spans nearly the full arc of that turbulent tenure, issued across a period when Cilicia was navigating the competing pressures of Mongol suzerainty to the east and Crusader fragmentation to the west.
Nercessian 398 is a copper kardez, the workhorse denomination of Armenian Cilician fiduciary coinage.