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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 4211180, member: 82322&quot;]There were a lot of high-grade Levon trams at the ANA in Baltimore in 2018.&nbsp; Heritage sold about 100 NGC slabbed examples in MS 60 through 64.&nbsp; I got a nice one in Baltimore but it was hard to photograph.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my surprise FSR auction win, not from this auction but from 106:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1079333[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ex: Frank Robinson, auction 106, October 2018, lot 445*C (alternate)</p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully this is the correct way to catalog an alternate.&nbsp; I expect to confuse someone in 100 years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seljuks of Rum, Ar Dirhem, joint rule of the three brothers (Kay Ka&#039;us II, Qilich Arslan IV &amp; Kay Qubadh II) joint rule 647-655 H (1249-57 AD), Qunya/Konya mint, AH 653=1255 AD, 21 mm, 2.95g</p><p>Obv: لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا ٱلله مُحَمَّدٌ رَسُولُ ٱلله <i>la ilah illa allah / muhammad rasul allah al-imam / al-musta’sim billah amir al-mu / ’minin duriba sana (in diwani script) arba’ wa khamsin / sittmi’a bi-qunya</i> (=“no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God, the Imam al-Musta‘sim billah Commander of the Faithful, struck the year three and fifty and six hundred in Qunya”)</p><p>Rev: <i>al-salatin al-a’azim / ’izz al-dunya wa’l-din kayka’us / wa rukn al-dunya wa’l-din qilij arslan / wa ’ala al-dunya wa’l-din kayqubad / ibn kaykhusraw barahin amir al-mu’minin</i> (=“the Supreme Sultans, Glory of the World and the Faith Kayka’us and Pillar of the World and the Faith Qilij Arslan and Exalted of the World and the Faith Kayqubad ibn Kaykhusraw, Proofs of the Commander of the Faithful”)</p><p>Ref: Album 1227; cf. Seljuq of Rum » Three brothers together » AR dirham » <a href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=12840" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zeno.ru/showgallery.php?cat=12840" rel="nofollow">Konya</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you still want to catch the tram:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1079339[/ATTACH] </p><p>Levon I (The Great) 1199-1219 AD. AR Tram.</p><p>Obv: +ԼԵՒՈՆ ԹԱԳԱՒՈՐ ՀՍՅՈՑ &quot;Levon king of the Armenians&quot;; King enthroned holding globus cruciger in right hand and lys in left, three dots right field.</p><p>Rev: +ԿԱՐՈՆՈՐԹԲՆ ԱՍՏՈՒԾ &quot;By the will of God&quot;; long jeweled cross, between two rampant lions revealing claws, head reverted. Ref: <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces37315.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces37315.html" rel="nofollow">numista</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>Neither the obverse nor reverse above looks like the coin.&nbsp; I liked this coin a lot when I bought it.&nbsp; Yours has a better strike.&nbsp; I looked at many of the slabbed ones sold by Heritage and I liked the MS 62 ones better than the MS 64 ones -- go figure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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