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Cilicia, Hetoum I With Seljuks of Rum Overlords The Cilician Armenians also struck a joint coinage, initially with Kay Qubâdh, but between 634 and 644 with Kay Khusraw II, mostly from their mint of Sis. These are silver coins struck by Hetum I (AH623-669/ AD 1226-1270) with an Armenian inscription on one side (here called the obverse) and an Arabic inscription on the other, giving the name and titles of the current Seljuq sultan. Bedoukian considered that they were minted following the signing of a treaty between Kay Qubâdh and the Armenians after the Seljuqs had successfully attacked Alanya in 1228. The obverse has as a central feature a facing horseman riding to the right. He wears an ornate head-dress and carries a sceptre in his right hand. There is a cross behind the rider and usually other symbols in the field. The reverse has normal Seljuq inscriptions, those in Kay Khusraw’s name being dated and the later issues giving Sis as the mint. Although the coins in Kay Qubâdh’s name are similar in size to normal Seljuq dirhams of the period, those for Kay Khusraw are markedly larger than either his Seljuq coins or the normal trams of Hetum, and they may well have been intended as a special issue. The dated coins are carefully engraved in a clear Naskhi script, those from Sis in a particularly fine style not found elsewhere in the Seljuq series. (Info. frm Broome). Ref: Paul Z. Bedoukian's "Coinage of Cilician Armenia" |
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